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Course Description:
Students will participate on a team that will design, construct, operate, and evaluate a soda-can-sized payload package (CanSat) that will be launched (via rocket) to approximately 2 miles in altitude from where it will be deployed and return to the surface via parachute (typically landing within 5 miles of the launch site). The main task of the design team is to create a system that will recover the payload through remote or autonomous operation (i.e., teleoperation). The UNR team will enter its system in an international competition (ARLISS) in September of 2003 to be held in the Black Rock Desert of Northern Nevada. To accomplishing this, an interdisciplinary team of students will be assembled from various fields of engineering and science.

Specifically, the team needs students with skills or strong interests in:

• Mechanical design of autonomous or remotely-controlled robotics
• Telescience and/or teleoperation of equipment and experiments
• BASIC Stamp programming (and use)
• Amateur (Ham) radio for communications and data telemetry
• Radio communications and data telemetry
• GPS navigation
• High-power amateur rocketry
• Project planning

Students with good independent study skills and a strong work ethic will have a good time! Availability for continued participation during the coming summer and next fall is a plus.