Organization
The CubeSTAR organization is comprised of both students and faculty members. The organizational structure consists of several work groups, ranging from project management to technical groups in charge of the subsystems in the satellite. The positions of project manager and technical manager are headed by faculty members in order to maintain the continuity and overall control of the project. They are in charge of maintaining the progress of the project, supporting the student and managing the administrative aspects of the project (e.g. licenses, launch coordination, funding, etc.).
Chart of the CubeSTAR organization
The managers are supported by faculty engineers and Ph.D. candidates involved in the project. The main responsibility for these members is to supervise the individual technical groups, support the student with technical advice in their graduate thesis and to help produce the electronics developed by the students.
There are five technical groups:
- Electronic Power System (EPS) group
- Communication (COMM) group
- Attitude Determination and Control (ADC) group
- On-Board Controller (OBC) group
- Payload group
Project Manager: Torfinn Lindem (contact)
Technical Manager: Espen Trondsen (contact)
The annual ANSAT workshop was held at the Andoya Rocket Range (ARR) from 19-20. june.
The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) held a cubesat seminar to introduce the work being performed on their student satellite project NUTS. Three CubeSTAR students attended the seminar to learn about the NUTS and exchange information and experience with the other students.
In late January, five students from the University of Oslo attended the 1st IAA Conference on University Satellite Missions and Cubesat Workshop held in Rome.