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"Help Cuesta Students Launch a Satellite." Cuesta Connections Summer 2000.
"Faculty Enrichment Grant Awarded."
A Faculty Enrichment Grant proposal by engineering and technology instructor Jeff Jones has been approved to the tune of $2,000. The award money will help fund the CUBESAT project, in which students from a wide range of disciplines design and construct a small satellite to be launched into space next year. Retired instructors Ed English and Cliff Buttschardt are technical advisors to the project, which has a total cost of about $5,000. The Faculty Enrichment Grant program is funded through the Cuesta College Foundation.
Reprinted from Cuesta College News Vol. 1, Issue 14. May 10, 2000.
"Help Launch a Student Dream."
Cuesta students are building a small satellite they hope will be sent into space sometime next year. Under the direction of engineering and technology division chair Jeff Jones, and with coaching by retired instructors Ed English and Cliff Buttschardt, more than 70 Cuesta students are joining students from Cal Poly and 10 other institutions for "The CUBESAT Project," a hands-on activity directed by Robert Twiggs of the Space Systems Development Lab at Stanford University.
The students have organized themselves into four teams, with each team designing and building a "cubesat" (the name derives from the fact that the satellites are four-inch cubes weighing about a kilogram each), and designing the electronics for whatever mission has been chosen for the satellite. Twiggs will submit the completed "cubesats" for consideration for launch on a polar orbit, possibly from Vandenburg Air Force Base, early next year.
The students are not only designing and building, they are busy raising funds to provide for materials and equipment needed to complete the project. Some limited funding has materialized, but contributions are welcome through the Cuesta College Foundation and marked for "The CUBESAT Project."
Reprinted from Cuesta College News Vol. 1, Issue 10. March 15, 2000.