The Sun Devil Satellite laboratory entered the Mars One university payload competition hosted by Mars One. Participants from both ASU teams are part of the Sun Devil Satellite Laboratory, a student organization for those interested in the universe, spacecraft and engineering. A presentation dump for all Discovery Dinner presentations made during the Spring 2018 semester can be found here. SDSL will be on the lookout for other Mars missions or applications were SPARC can be used. The Sun Devil Satellite 1 (SDS-1) was an all-student satellite mission to support a solar imaging instrument observing solar flare initiations. Mars One had a few spots left on there first unmanned mission in 2018 and decided to support STEM education and host a international competition for one of these spots. Had it flown and operated, the Sun Devil Satellite 1 would have accomplished a great deal from a technical perspective. After trying to get our name out to the world we were featured in numerous science organizations including the local Arizona NBC news, but we fell short and did not win the competition. Create and ensure a reliable data link between the SDS-1 and the ASU ground station for transmitting and receiving telemetry, commands and photos. Although the SDS-1 never made it to flying hardware, the members of SDSL and the team at GSFC worked hand-in-hand from January of 2011 to develop a CDR-level design by October of that same year. The Executive Board has elections for officers every year, so if you find yourself interested in getting more involved in SDSL, please feel free to let us know! Designed by Elegant Themes | Powered by WordPress, NASA Jet Propulsion Lab-Pulsed Plasma Thruster (PPT) Team Collaboration, SDSL Spring 2016 Final General Meeting Vacuum Chamber Demo. Since the founding of the organization with the inception of SDS-1, the Sun Devil Satellite Laboratory has continued to design and develop satellite-related technology, with the goal of getting technology into space, which we are now happily have the opportunity to achieve with project Phoenix. The Sun Devil Satellite Laboratory (SDSL) is a student ran lab located at Arizona State University dedicated to the development of new spacecrafts and spacecraft technologies. Operations: the satellite will look at the sun, take pictures, correlating images taken with data from the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) Sample FIDI Image . The FIDI was an internal development effort at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), lead by Dr. Adrian Daw, the development team comprised of Mr. Joe Davila, Mr. Patrick Haas, Mr. George Hilton, and Mr. Craig Stevens. However, these projects cannot be pursued without developing the rationale and need behind them, which is why SDSL allows students to combine the elements of engineering with drafting and submitting proposals for long-term projects, such as our Pulsed Plasma Thruster (PPT) or Phoenix projects. Overview of Sun Devil Satellite Laboratory Projects for 2020-2021 Academic Year: All of the general body meeting presentations can be found here. After researching mission capabilities, including utilizing a FLIR imaging core as an earth-pointed thermal imager, the SDS-1 team was paired with an imaging instrument: the Flare Initiation Doppler Imager (FIDI).