Spacecraft and Launch Vehicle Laboratory (SLV Lab) was established in September 2010 using a grant from Air Force Research Lab. Planned activities include senior projects, research, and support for the following:

• CubeSat research and development
• Sounding rockets and payloads
• Launch vehicle design
• High-Altitude balloon flights
• CanSat competition www.cansatcompetition.com

2010 CubeSat Senior Project:

• Investigating low-cost attitude control for CubeSats
• Modified model airplane servos for gyroscopic actuators
• On-board gyros and accelerometers measure rotational motion
• Computer sends open- and closed-loop data back to PC for later analysis
• Cal Poly CubeSat Demo ExSat-1 Flown in 0-g on NASA’s Vomit Comet, JSC- Houston

2010 High-Altitude Balloon Flights Senior Project:

• Use to investigate atmospheric properties
• Fly to ~100,000 ft elevation
• Designing “flyback” UAV: UAV will glide back and autonomously return research instrumentation to launch site

Pictures/Videos

2010 NASA Vomit Comet Micro-Gravity Experiment

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