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We are a student group at Brown University building a low-cost, open-source nano satellite. Our satellite, EQUiSat, will be launched by NASA! What's BSE?

Brown Space Engineering is Brown University's first space program. We have one CubeSat in development and a high altitude balloon program. CubeSat is a NASA initiative that launches nano satellites, or satellites that are about four inches long and weigh about three pounds. Our nanosatellite, EQUiSat, will be launched through NASA's CubeSat Launch Initiative. Why is the satellite called EQUiSat? T

he Brown CubeSat team aims to make outer space more accessible to the public. EQUiSat will have LED lights that are visible to the naked eye and will output radio signals that can be heard by a HAM radio. Plus, EQUiSat was constructed using off-the-shelf items, and at a low budget. If you want to see more about how we built our satellite, or how to track EQUiSat once it's launched, please visit our website at http://brownspace.org!

01/15/2021

Hi friends of EQUiSat!

In case you haven't received a registration link already, our tribute event for EQUiSat is happening this afternoon at 1 PM ET. Following is the link to register, which will respond to you with a confirmation and Zoom link.

https://brown.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUvdOyqrjspH9QoWcWRWL3zn_T_e3qo_4YS

The event will feature Brown’s President Christina Paxson, Dean of Engineering Larry Larson, Ladd Observatory curator Michael Umbricht, and some of the many students who over the span of 10 years brought EQUisat from a “bright" idea to a successful 890-day mission.

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05/04/2020

EQUiSat's count of how many times it's rebooted recently went from 255 to 0, and just happened to do so on ! This occurred because we store reboots in a limited-size 1-byte integer; we didn't expect EQUiSat to last long enough for this to happen, but we're sure happy it has!

02/11/2020

EQUiSat recently flashed over two separate periods! The first began yesterday at ~3:30pm UTC, and the second at ~12:55pm UTC today, just before if flew over our station at . We're now working on setting up EQUiSat to flash at a predetermined time; stay tuned for updates!

02/06/2020

This is a map of the locations of every data point ever received from EQUiSat (i.e. the satellite's location when the data point was recorded). EQUiSat is configured to send data recorded throughout the past orbit in every downlink, allowing us to get data from around the world!

01/30/2020

BSE's 2020 team photo!

12/27/2019

Check out our blog post about what we've been up to during the Fall semester!

In Fall 2019, we achieved a couple of key milestones for the Brown Space Engineering team. Our R&D team pivoted to amateur rocketry and we settled into a new workroom. We formally

12/09/2019

We just finished all the parts of our first PVDX chassis prototype! The modular design makes it easy to manufacture and assemble, and will simplify accessing the internals of the assembled satellite.

11/14/2019

A big thanks to James Darpinian for adding EQUiSat to his satellite-viewing app, https://james.darpinian.com/satellites. Check it out, the "see where it will appear in your sky" feature using Google street view is super useful! https://james.darpinian.com/satellites/?special=equisat

Find out how to see satellites in the night sky, no telescope required.

11/07/2019

We just submitted a proposal to NASA's CubeSat Launch Initiative to receive a launch for our next satellite: the Planetary Visuals and Dynamics eXperiment (PVDX). Anyone will be able to control PVDX's robotic arm, camera, and display and get back images. Stay tuned for more info!

10/21/2019

Jacob and Ashu had a great time presenting for the club at the Open Source CubeSat Workshop in Athens, Greece! You can watch their mission analysis of EQUiSat at https://youtu.be/pSLb62PyfjU?t=2151

09/24/2019

BSE will be watching the live stream of the Soyuz MS-15 launch co-piloted by Brown alum Jessica Meir tomorrow, starting at 9:30am in our Engineering Research Center. Check it out on NASA TV https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html

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07/14/2019

Today marks the first anniversary of EQUiSat's deployment from the ISS. Here are some statistics showing just how ~stellar~ its performance has been!

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What's BSE? Brown Space Engineering is Brown University's first space program. Our goal is to make space accessible to people of all backgrounds. We developed and operate EQUiSat, a 1U CubeSat, and have a high altitude balloon program.

We launched EQUiSat through NASA’s Educational Launch Initiative on July 13th, 2018. EQUiSat has LED lights that are visible to the naked eye and outputs radio signals that can be heard by a HAM radio. Plus, EQUiSat was constructed using off-the-shelf items, and at a low budget - its parts cost only $3,776.71 in total! If you want to see more about how we built our satellite, or how to track EQUiSat, please visit our website at http://brownspace.org!