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Welcome reader, this is a place of learning and excellence.
Our wiki is still largely under construction at this time, but soon this wiki will be a place to find answers for any question. You can help! This becomes a more powerful page everyday thanks to contributions like yours.
As this wiki lives within Github, any referenced files should be linked to their respective location in their respective repositories. For example, references to CougSat-I hardware files should be linked to the file being referenced in the CougSat-I Hardware repository.
Cougs in Space has a mission to provide its members cross discipline hands-on skills, industry connections, education outreach, and eventually full time careers in space, aerospace, and other technical fields.
- Community - Cougs in Space is a fellowship of like minded Cougs. We share common attitudes, interests, goals, and will take risks to help other Cougs accomplish their goals.
- Innovation - Cougs in Space strives to improve the space presence at WSU with our flagship project CougSat-I. CougSat-I is developed in house from design to launch with the intellectual property of CiS members.
- Integrity - Cougs in Space members take pride and honor their contributions and efforts to CougSat-I, and celebrate the achievements of their colleagues.
- Leadership - Cougs in Space is designed to place members into demanding leadership positions, whether an individual is responsible for a team or not. Building better leaders is a critical measure of success for Cougs in Space
- Passion - There is no class at WSU on how to build a satellite... yet. Cougs in Space members have a strong passion for space, challenges, industry readiness, and/or being on the forefront of innovation.
As CougSat-1 is the first satellite created at WSU, the primary objective is to develop a reliable and robust mission support system for nano-satellites. The mission support system consists of all the subsystems on the satellite except those relating to the payload. These include: ACDS, EPS, IHU, RCS, and the mechanical structure. A reliable and robust of these components will improve the development of future cube satellites as only the payload specific subsystems will need to be designed and tested.
The secondary objection comes from the Astrobiology department at WSU. They requested CougSat-I to test an experimental apparatus that will study plant germination in microgravity. As humans are preparing for long distance space travel, sustainable food supplies will need to be researched to ensure the travelers survive their trip. A future CougSat will have a full experiment researching agriculture in microgravity.
The last two objectives are to share the WSU pride with as many people as possible. CougSat-I will put a cougar head into orbit and broadcast "Go Cougs!" around the world. Every photo CougSat-I takes will have a cougar head in the corner. Every transmission will end with an enthusiastic Go Cougs.
For specific information on the goal of CougSat-I you can view the overall design document here: CougSat-I Design Document
This wiki is a home for Cougs in Space Members and their intellectual property. In this wiki there are links to documents and tutorials, brilliant ideas, and both technical or non-technical conversations.
This wiki is hosted internally on GitHub. Contact the media team lead or the respective repository owners for questions regarding this wiki.
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