Advisors:

• Alina Alexeenko, Ph.D., Professor, AAE

Description:

FEMTA Suborbital Spaceflight Experiment is a multidisciplinary project sponsored by NASA REDDI program centered on the development of a microgravity experiment to be flown in space on a reusable suborbital space launch vehicle. The goal of the experiment is to test a novel zero-gravity propellant management system for use with FEMTA micropropulsion technology for Small Satellites. FEMTA team will design and develop the hardware and software for a microgravity experiment to be flown in space on a reusable suborbital vehicle.

Relevant Technologies:

Small satellites, Propulsion, Internet-of-Space 

Website: 

https://engineering.purdue.edu/CubeSat/missions/femta 

Spring 2020 Purdue Undergraduate Research Conference Presentation:

Suborbital Testing of a Small Satellite Propulsion System

Prerequisites:

Printed circuit board design, embedded systems programming, fluid mechanics, heat transfer, thermodynamics