Team launches satellite as practice for program
by Marsha Sills - Daily Advertiser
February 7, 2005
LAKE CHARLES—Members of the University of Louisiana's satellite team lost about $700 in equipment somewhere in a thicket behind burnt cane fields near White Castle last week, but the loss was worth it, said team members who are honing their design of a satellite.
CricketSat II Launch
by Wade Falcon - C.A.P.E.
December 18, 2004
The Cajun Advanced Picosatellite Experiment, C.A.P.E., Team launched their second test balloon on Saturday, December 18, 2004. The payload, CS2, contained a digital processing unit that measured temperature. The test flight reached an estimated altitude of 100,000 feet. The test flight started at 9:10 a.m. and had an estimated altitude of 100,000 feet. The test flight duration of 1.5 hrs. The team also tracked and monitored the temperature readings of CS2 from a ground station setup in Lafayette, Louisiana. The team was able to track the payload until 10:36 a.m. The team was able to record temperature with respect to time throughout the flight.
New Heights
La Louisiane
November 22, 2004
Some UL Lafayette electrical and computer engineering students plan to send a small artificial satellite into orbit next year from the Republic of Kazakhstan, almost half a world away.
Cochrane Technologies' Press Release
Cochrane Technologies
November 22, 2004
Lafayette, LA—Nov. 22, 2004—At this time next years a team of engineering student at the University of Louisiana will be gathered inside a lab waiting for the first signs of life from their Picosatellite. The satellite, Cajun Advanced Picosatellite Experiment—CAPE, is schedule for launch next December from the International Space Company Kosmotras located in the Republic of Kazakhstan. The will be one of only a handful of Universities working on the cubesat project. Some of the Universities working on the cubesat project are Stanford University, Cal Poly State University, University of Arizona, and Cornell. CAPE1 will be placed in a low earth orbit approximately 500 miles outside the Earth's atmosphere. If successful the team will be the first student group in Louisiana to design, build, and launch a satellite into orbit. Joining the C.A.P.E. team will be Cochrane Technologies. Cochrane Technologies, located in Broussard, LA, is a leader in the global positioning industry. With the $5,000 donation from Cochrane Technologies, the C.A.P.E team is one step closer to reaching its goal for the cost of the launch.
CapRock Communications' Press Release
by Sadie McCrary - CapRock Communications
September 24, 2004
HOUSTON—Sept. 24, 2004—Next year, when a Russian intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) carries its payload into the October sky, there will be several University of Louisiana at Lafayette students cheering the ascent. The launch will hurl a brand new satellite into orbit and mark the beginning of the data collection phase of the university's Cajun Advanced Picosatellite Experiment (CAPE) project. Joining the students in their celebration will be CapRock Communications, the project's chief corporate sponsor.
Students take learning to a higher plane
by Marsha Sills - Daily Advertiser
September 24, 2004
LAFAYETTE—In a small lab on the campus of UL Lafayette, a team of electrical engineering students is bridging the gap between what they learn in the books and what they can learn from the stars.
CubeSats: Tiny spacecraft, big payoffs
by Leonard David - CNN.com / SPACE.com
September 10, 2004
LOGAN, UTAH (SPACE.com)—Experts say the big news in spacecraft building involves ultra-small CubeSats.
These petite but powerful satellites are spearheading a hands-on revolution around the world. And what fist-sized CubeSats bring to space could mimic innovations sparked by the personal computer here on Earth.
Students to Send Satellite into Orbit
Accent Magazine
August, 2004
Some UL Lafayette electrical and computer engineering students plan to send a small artificial satellite into orbit next year from the Republic of Kazakhstan, almost half a world away.
Following Cajunbot, UL students reach for stars
by Nathan Stubbs - The Independent
July 14, 2004
Nick Pugh got his amateur radio license from the Federal Communications Commission at age 13. "I just like talking all over the world," he says. "Because of the Internet and other things, the hobby is not as popular as it used to be. [But] satellites are helping to revitalize it."
