![]() “This innovative project will help build our collective understanding of the origins of asteroids and meteorites while positioning UM as a leader in space science research excellence.”įerguson says this research project is an example of how UM creates a path for success for students and faculty working in research while demonstrating how investigation and studies being done in Manitoba can have a global impact. Mario Pinto, Vice President (Research and International) at the University of Manitoba. “We are proud to see the UM CubeSat project move forward for deployment by the Canadian Space Agency in the near future,” said Dr. It also speaks to the kind of innovative research happening at UM. The CubeSat may also give further insight into how asteroids form in the first place. Data from the satellite will be beamed back to the UM campus so that researchers here and at the CSA can better understand how changes in asteroid composition affects their cousins, meteorites. The satellite will collect information on how space conditions affect the composition of asteroids and the Moon. “I feel very grateful that I had the opportunity to work on this project as an international master’s student, and I’m very proud of our team for making it this far.” Knowing that a piece of hardware that was designed, made, and tested by me and my colleagues is going to be orbiting the Earth for the next couple of years is surreal,” says Aref Asgari, second-year M.Sc. ![]() “It feels great to see that the project that we spent years on finally ready to go to space. The goal is to give post-secondary institutions from each province and territory the opportunity for their students to take part in a real space mission by designing, building, launching, and operating their own miniature satellite. This is the first time a UM design has been selected by the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) for deployment to the International Space Station since it began its CubeSat project in 2018. “This project builds on a long-standing partnership between my research lab (the STARLab) and Magellan Aerospace, which embeds University researchers with professional space systems engineers in a world-class satellite integration ASIF (Advanced Satellite Integration Facility) at Magellan,” says Philip Ferguson, professor of mechanical engineering with the Price Faculty of Engineering and project lead. The satellite project, led by engineering students in the Space Technology and Advanced Research Laboratory (STARLab) isn’t much bigger than a 2-litre milk carton, but it could unlock the mysteries of asteroids, meteorites and the moon. The UM Cube Satellite may be small but it’s ready to make a big impact. ![]()
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