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Educational institutions involved in small satellites
Increasingly, it is becoming possible for educational institutions to be involved in
small satellites. This is largely due to sophisticated and affordable
technology, and the fact that Low Earth Orbit is quite benign to commercial
off-the-shelf components. This allows satellites to be designed and built within the course duration, or via a
series of student projects. The greatest hurdle is launch, and very few
satellites primed by a University make it into orbit.
A recent trend has been towards very small 1kg "CubeSats", and this
is described further in the future
pico/nanosatellite pages.
The following list of educational establishments are those known to be involved in
small spacecraft projects. The list is limited to Universities that are the
mission prime, or the customer for a mission. Involvement in payload,
sub-systems or experiments is widespread and beyond the scope of these pages to
track. Where known, specific spacecraft project names appear in brackets,
including a year when launched (or expected to be launched).
Note that all the links on this page will lead you to the individual institutions
Europe
- Finland
 Technical University of
Helsinki in Finland (HUTSAT) -
- Germany
- Technical University of
Berlin, Germany (TUBSAT series '90 onwards)
- University of Bremen,
Germany (BREMSAT '94, Abrixas '97)
Unitersitaet Kaiserslautern, Germany (Phase
3D)
Technical
University of Münich, LunarSat program
Netherlands
Delft
University, Delfi and Easyspace programme - Spain
Universidad
Complutense, Madrid, Spain
- Universidad Politecnica
de Madrid, Spain (UPMSAT '95)
- Sweden
- Royal Institute of Technology
in Stockholm, Sweden. (KTHSat)
Dept. of Space Physics
of Umeå University (RYP) (Munin)
- United Kingdom
Surrey Space Centre University of Surrey, Surrey, United
Kingdom (UoSAT series '80 onwards, and SNAP nanosat)
Bristol University, HAND
satellite project
University of
Leicester, England (CATSAT)
Cranfield University and
Southampton University (Mustang nanosatellite)
Portugal
- Instituto Superior
Técnico , Lisbon Portugal. (PoSAT-1)
North America (USA, Canada and Mexico)
- Canada
- Carleton University,
Canada. (SILA microsatellite)
University of Toronto (MOST microsatellite)
Mexico
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de
México, Mexico City, Mexico (UNAMSAT)
Anahuac University,
Mexico (ANISAT Nano-satellite project)
- USA
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champain.
California
Polytechnic (PolySat)
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Stanford University, , U.S. (SAPHIRE and
OPAL)
- Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, U.S.
(ASUSAT)
- University of Arizona, Tuscon, U.S.,
Students Satellite Program (UASAT)
- Iowa State
University, Ames, Iowa, U.S. (ISAT)
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Naval Postgraduate School,
Monterey, California, U.S. (PANSAT)
- San Jose State
University, San Jose, California, U.S. (SPARTNIK)
- Sierra Community College, Rocklin, California, U.S.
(MINERVA)
- University of Alabama, Huntsville, Alabama, U.S.
(SEDSAT)
- Utah State University, Logan, Utah, U.S. (NUSAT '85,
Webersat etc CAST)
- Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory,
U.S.
- Penn State University, U.S. (SAC-B CUBIC instrument)
- University of Colorado, U.S.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology Centre for Space
Research, U.S. (HETE)
- Weber
State University, Ogden, Utah,
U.S. (NUSAT '85, WEBERSAT '90 and more)
- University of New Hampshire, U.S. (CATSAT)
- Boston University, U.S. (TERRIERS)
University
of Kansas, (KUSAT, KUteSat)
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Africa
- University of Stellenbosch, South Africa
(SUNSAT)
Asia
- Korean Advanced
Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), S.Korea (KITSAT series)
- Mahanakorn University,
Thailand (TMSAT)
- National Central
University, Taiwan (TUU-Sat)
- ATSB, Malaysia, (TiungSAT)
Tsinghua University,
China (Tsinghua-1)
South America
- Universidad de La
Frontera, Temuco, Chile, Involved with the design and construction of CESAR-1
If your project is not listed, please submit details / links:
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