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Current Project Lead - Kaden Queener
2025-2026 Activity: Main Satellite Bus Development
2025-2026 Activity: Main Satellite Bus Development
Project Lead - Kaden Queener
Concept of completed 3U CubeSat with onboard experiments
What is a CubeSat?
What is a CubeSat?
A CubeSat is a miniaturized satellite built in standardized units of 10 x 10 x 10 centimeters, known as "U" (for unit). Originally developed in the late 1990s to support space research and education, CubeSats have since evolved into a popular platform for a wide range of missions.
Despite their small form factor, CubeSats have demonstrated impressive capabilities. They offer startups, universities, and government agencies a low-barrier entry into space missions, enabling faster development cycles, innovative experimentation, and an opportunity for early exposure to orbital spacecraft system design for students.
Trantor is SHC's newest Spaceflight project. Our goal is to provide UAH students the opportunity to conceptualize, design, and build a CubeSat in a student-led and student-run team. After passing a Mission Concept Review in April 2025, the project's current focus is on further conceptual development of a modular, universal 1U CubeSat bus design that will fly on a 3U CubeSat to Low Earth Orbit.
A modular bus will unlock the capability to support an exceptionally wide variety of CubeSat-scale missions, opening the door for groundbreaking orbital scientific research and technology demonstration at a cost feasible for a student team!
As of August 2025, Trantor's current team focus is on developing onboarding and recruitment material, familiarizing members with Rust software, and working towards a Conceptual Design Review with SHC in November. The project is still in its early phases, so if you want to make a lasting impact, there is no better time to get yourself involved!
Want to write your name into the stars? Join us now!
Contact Project Lead:
Kaden Queener
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