Greg Holt, Shaun Stewart, Tom Campbell, and Michael Linford designed and flew a camera payload (pictured left) to more than 100,000 feet on a high altitude balloon in Summer 2003. The camera took the image shown above right. The workshop, held in Boulder Colorado, was part of the University Nanosatellite program. The team was noted for their enthusiasm about the great state of Texas!
More information on the Satellite Design Lab
More information on our Nanosatellite Project, FASTRAC
Jacob
Williams has been awarded a NASA Earth System Science (ESS)
Fellowship award for his Ph.D. proposal "Extending the
Capabilities of the BlackJack GPS Receiver for Earth Science
Applications." The fellowship is one out of 55 selected
from more than 200 proposals. Good job, Jacob!
Congratulations to Jared Madsen (pictured) and
Eric Monda for receiving their graduate degrees in 2003!
Jared Madsen successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation, "Robust Spacecraft Attitude Determination Using Global Positioning System Receivers." Dr. Madsen has accepted a position with Sandia Laboratories and moved to Albuquerque, NM. More information on Dr. Jared Madsen
Eric Monda completed his Masters thesis, "Investigation of Real-Time GPS Pseudolite Relative Navigation." Eric is continuing on at UT in pursuit of a Ph.D.
| Navigating with Satellites at Explore UT |
 Students
from the research group recently participated in the
University-wide open house, ExploreUT. As part of the College
of Engineering section, the group gave a series of talks and
demonstrations on the subject "Navigating With Satellites".
Participants were treated to a hands-on demonstration of
Global Positioning System technology and research. The talk
was geared toward high school students interested in pursuing
engineering fields in college.Go to UT College of Engineering Page Go to ExploreUT page |
| Demo Introduces High School Students to GPS |
|
 Group
members recently put on a hands-on demonstration of the Global
Positioning System for visiting high school students. As
representatives of the MITE (Minorities Introduction To
Engineering) and NexTech (Young Technology Leaders) programs,
these students were given the opportunity to hear an
explanation of GPS from grad students Tifanie Smart and Greg
Holt. Then, they were taken on a GPS archaeological hunt led
by Greg as Indiana Jones! See more photos from the demo... |