 | Our current President is Dante Buckley. Dante is a member of the Space Systems Group. Dante co-founded the SSDC in 2005 after being exposed to the small satellite community at the 19th Annual AIAA/USU Conference on Small Satellites. Our team welcomes you to the SSDC website! |
 | Jimmy is the president of the Gator Amateur Radio Club as well as a member of the Space Systems Group. Jimmy is working on the magnet coils as well as the ground station. |
 | Shawn Allgeier is the team lead for the attitude determination system (ADS). Shawn conducts research on formation flight of satellites from the space systems group. |
 | Andrew Waldrum is the team lead for the command & data handling (CDH) of the satellite. This involves a TI MSP430 microcontroller unit running Salvo real time operating system (RTOS). Andrew's area of expertise is C/C++ programming and hardware integration. |
 | Sharan Asundi is the team lead for the electronic power system (EPS). Sharan also works on the health managment of the satellite. |
 | Vivek Nagabhushan is the team lead for the structural / mechanism design and ACS design for the cubesat. Vivek brings experience in hardware implementation from the defense sector. |
 | Sal Torre joined the Space Systems Group in the fall of 2008. He is our go-to person for all embedded system work. He writes code for the radio, sun sensors, microcontroller, and pretty much influences all hardware testing. He is earning his Electrical Engineering Masters degree in December, 2008. Much of his work can be viewed at http://plaza.ufl.edu/saltorre/home.html. |
 | Katie Cason joined the Space Systems Group in Fall 2008 and is pursuing her Master's Degree in Aerospace Engineering. Katie is performing mission planning and satellite scenarios through AGI's Satellite Tool Kit. |
 | Fred Leve is the team lead for the attitude control system (ACS). The design for the cubesat ACS evolved from a larger prototype which was the subject of Fred's master's research. |
 | Our faculty advisor is Dr. Norman Fitz-Coy. Dr. Fitz-Coy teaches Space Systems Design (EAS4530), Dynamics & Control of Space Vehicles (EAS4412), and Astrodynamics (EML4510) at the undergraduate level as well as Advanced Astrodynamics (EML6939) at the graduate level. |
Our team is managed by graduate students from the Space Systems Group in the department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering. The club is open to students from all disciplines and experience levels. Group meetings are often coordinated with the Space Systems Group. We are always looking for new members to add to the team and we will be happy to provide a list of recommended reading material as well as discuss our various endeavors. In addition to the activities of the club, we recommend Dr. Fitz-Coy's mentioned above as great sources of information regarding orbital mechanics, attitude determination and control, and design of space systems.
Contact Information
If you have an interest in any aspect of satellite design we can find a relevant aspect of the project that you can contribute to. We are located in NEB 185A. Feel free to stop by the lab or the Space Systems Group office to learn more, or simply to talk about anything regarding space!
| Lab Phone | NEB 185A | (352)-846-3037 |
| Space Systems Office | NEB 150 | (352)-846-1667 |