SilverSat is a community-based non-profit led by parents and students with a focus on space exploration. We were founded to provide tweens and teens with a hands-on opportunity to participate in a real-world project. Our student members are the ones who determined the mission idea and are involved in participating in all major decisions involving the project. Students make up each of the major systems teams and work with adult volunteers.
Student Teams: Area tweens and teens represent a diverse student population. Students are in grades 7-11 and are a mix of public, private, and homeschooled students from the greater Silver Spring area and Washington, D.C. Our diversity provides varying perspectives as well as many different areas of expertise that contributes to our progress and allows us to be more efficient in creating our CubeSat.
Our team consists of multiple subgroups working simultaneously to create the prototype of our CubeSat.
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- The subgroups include: (photo of groups with first name+last initial with description)
- Power – Working to supply power to the CubeSat
- Avionics – Working on the computers allowing for us to control the CubeSat
- Systems – Working on overall systems design and project management
- Payload – Working to develop code to Tweet and take pictures
- Communications – Working to connect between the CubeSat and groundstations
- Flight Software – Working to develop code to control the CubeSat
- Guidance and Control – Working to help keep the CubeSat stabilized in space, making sure it is pointing in the right direction
- Mechanical – Working on the CubeSat structure and assembly
- Indicator (drone prototype) – Working to create a way for us to see our prototype CubeSat in the air
- The subgroups include: (photo of groups with first name+last initial with description)