The AggieSat Lab is a Student Satellite Program under the Department of Aerospace Engineering at Texas A&M University that is currently involved in two satellite projects, AggieSat 2 and AggieSat 3. The principal investigator, Dr. Helen Reed joined as Head of the Aerospace Department in December of 2004 where she brought 11+ years of experience in space flight, satellite design, and student education from Arizona State University. Being a student organization at Texas A&M provides opportunities to work with other departments in coordinating both satellites through the design and fabrication process. With students from all majors working together, AggieSat Lab provides an exemplary learning environment for undergraduate students.
AggieSat Lab is open to all Texas A&M students; undergraduates, and graduates of any major whom is interested in participating in satellite design, fabrication and testing. Simply contact one of our Lab Managers at anytime detailing your interest.
News Events
April 28, 2008
AggieSat Lab's presentation by Hutson Betts at the Hudnall Planetarium went flawless. His speech lasted about 25 minutes and covered AggieSat2 and AggieSat3 missions. Also, a description of future scientific missions that could be conducted by NASA given the equipment AggieSat Lab will be utilizing was also presented.
April 21, 2008
AggieSat Lab has finally moved into our new location at the Munnerlyn building. For the next several days students will focus on reestabishing the lab and unpacking all of our equipment brought over from our old location. Our new facility includes one central room, pictured right, that will contain our Team AggieSat computer equipment.
Also, our new facility contains five offices, one for the lab director, one for our software team leader, two for lab managers, and one for satellite design sessions. Also, we'll have an assembly lab, pictured left, for building satellite hardware, a conference room, and a storage room for our servers.
April 19, 2008
Today AggieSat Lab officially packed all equipment at our current location, the University Services Building, before our move to our new facilities. Starting early this morning students arrived to assist in breaking down computers, furniture, and lab equipment including all hardware associated with AggieSat2. Our assembly lab where all hardware prototyping and testing occurs was completely packed except for equipment that is not required for our current projects. Any additional equipment that is not required at our new location, will be left at the University Services Building as AggieSat Lab will continue to hold those rooms.
What was once our Team AggieSat room as pictured on the far left with students present, has been packed and turned into temporary storage until Monday. Our new facility will contain an equivalent lab space where we will reestablish the Team AggieSat lab. Our new facilities will also contain space for a small server room where all servers used by the software team will be located for continued use by all our projects.
Beginning Monday morning, all packed material will be moved to our new location at the Munnerlyn (Astronomy and Space Sciences Engineering) Building. Students will then proceed to unpack and set up a new computer lab, and hardware assembly lab. Work at AggieSat will proceed as scheduled beginning Tuesday morning with the continuation of AggieSat2 hardware and software testing.
By moving on campus, our new location will make trips by on-campus students, and students without vehicals more convenient. Also students will also be capable of working more effectively around their class schedules by eliminating the time required to travel between the campus and our current facilities.
Due to our change in location and facility, we will be unreachable by phone or fax at our current numbers. However, we're still reachable by email, or web form at anytime during the week. Once we've been able to unpack we'll update our contact phone and fax numbers on our Contact Us page.