Brown Space Engineering

During my time at Brown, I had the unique pleasure of being part of the Brown Space Engineering team, a group of talented young people from all backgrounds and fields of study who have come together to build a nano satellite (a.k.a. CubeSat/EquiSat) from scratch..

While it was only for two years, I enjoyed every minute of it. I worked on the radio team, responsible for setting up the radio that was to be our tiny satellite’s only method of communication with the ground. We worked on researching the available radio technology, setting up the radio, figuring out our message encoding, testing, and constructing our groundstation.

Over the next six months, I then moved to a more programming intensive role as we finalized our satellite in time for launch. Our CubeSat went up in 2018, and entered orbit. Since then, the team have begun work on other projects, including a specialized balloon.

We also have an Outreach and Education Initiative, focused on teaching basic scientific principles to school children in Providence.

UPDATE: Launch was successful, and on 12/26/2020 after 897 days in orbit, EQUISat deoribited and burned up on reentry.