Science Program Around Communications Engineering with High Achieving Undergraduate Cadres (SPACE HAUC) is a CubeSat mission being developed by a team of undergraduates at UMass Lowell. It will demonstrate the suitability of high data rate X-band communications on CubeSat. SPACE HAUC is designed to leverage our on-going efforts and provide an opportunity for undergraduate and graduate students to develop and flight demonstrate a state-of-the-art, low-cost phased array antenna and phase shifter electronics manufactured by 2-D Printing aboard a CubeSat platform. The project is a multidisciplinary research effort that will involve the design, construction, integration, test, and launch of UMass Lowellâs first satellite. During the two years of this project, undergraduate students will gain hands-on experience in a broad range of spaceflight technology topics, such as, spacecraft and instrument design, hardware fabrication, control theory, integration and tests, and spacecraft operations, as well as data analysis. Support from MASGC allows the students to participate in SPACE HAUC in a meaningful way. The students supported by MASGC are members of various subsystem teams for the project, each contributing crucial research and design to make the mission a success.
Graduate students supporting the SPACE HAUC team – Glenn Howe and George Geddes support the undergraduate students. Glenn provided space flight hardware expertise to members of the space HAUC team. George provided space environmental information and data processing approaches using an instrument on the international space station.