- Shark Tank: Light pollution Saron Yohannes Ellery McDaniel Mirabelle Kakushadze
- Shark Tank: Urban planning Saron Yohannes
- Shark Tank: Agriculture @Bolu
- Shark Tank: Water quality Sebastian Perdomo Hernandez Omer Ismail @Bolu Kareena Shah Mirabelle Kakushadze
- Shark Tank: Global warming Sebastian Perdomo Hernandez Asael Acosta Christian Le Angelina Costa Katherine Diaz Govea @Lauren Stelwagon Yat Tik Wu Mirabelle Kakushadze
- Shark Tank: Natural disasters Angelina Costa Sebastian Perdomo Hernandez @Lauren Stelwagon Christian Le Israel Garcia Mirabelle Kakushadze
- Shark Tank: "The other way" Sebastian Perdomo Hernandez Angelina Costa Katherine Diaz Govea Ellery McDaniel Dustin Wang
- Shark Tank: Spectral imaging Israel Garcia Christian Le Angelina Costa Katherine Diaz Govea @Lauren Stelwagon @Ajibola Omer Ismail Eddy Chen
General Updates
- Conference room (33-218) our general body meeting location moving forward
- The Mezzanine will be our new ETHER workspace. We will have a corner of the room dedicated to Satellite Team with storage, a TV, and a few tables.
- For IAP and Spring semester, we will have an official space
- We also have conference room booking priority
MIT Mission
- We have decided that we are moving forward with a data correlation SmallSat with sensor(s) and an imager to research a correlation between some data variables. This imager could also be something like a thermal camera.
- We still need to choose a name for this project!
- The satellite will be 3U or 6U in size, and we hope to find something that the team cares about and find a way to implement a related idea using our satellite.
- We also want to be able to publish what we are doing and become a resource for others to reference
- We hope to launch within a year and a half, and the satellite can continue taking data for as long as it is operational.
- So, what will we use the imager/sensor(s) to measure?
- Ideas from previous meetings:
- Light pollution v. temperature
- Light pollution v. animal population / biodiversity loss
- Light pollution v. wildfires
- Light pollution v. sleep and human health
- Measuring whether groups working to stop light pollution are succeeding in doing so
- Ideas suggested at this meeting:
- Urban planning (eg. infrastructure planning)
- Agriculture
- Water quality
- Spectral imaging
- Forestry
- Natural disasters
- Global warming
- Mapping regions to air pollution/presence of certain greenhouse gases
- Icebergs
- CO2 emissions
- "The other way" - pointing the camera into outer space instead
- Human population density
- Animal migration patterns
- Plankton v. whale pods
- Looking for things in the ocean, such as sunken ships
- For each idea, a small group has been assigned to gather information about this idea. Everybody should have notes and/or slides (~5-6 slides) ready to send to the rest of the team by next weekend (November 23rd)
- These notes should specifically include:
- Feasibility: Keep in mind that this is our first full satellite mission, and we want this mission to succeed to establish the club's significance both at MIT and in the world
- Sensors required
- Accuracy required
- Technical complexity
- Cost
- Size (should be 6U or less)
- Mass
- Why this project would be interesting
- Feasibility: Keep in mind that this is our first full satellite mission, and we want this mission to succeed to establish the club's significance both at MIT and in the world
- There were a few unclaimed projects. Nobody is currently assigned to present these, but feel free to pick them up if you're interested!
- Forestry
- Looking for things in the ocean, such as sunken ships
- Animal stuff
- Ideas from previous meetings:
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ETHER
We split into subteams. Please see individual subteam notes for more information.
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