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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
    • 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

ETHER

We split into subteams. Please see individual subteam notes for more information.


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