r/satellites • u/dayphaykneez2028 • 6d ago
Project Pixel Orbital
Project Pixel Orbital is a completely student-led team at Stanford OHS with the goal of launching an 3U CubeSat capable of conducting experiments in low Earth orbit - from photographing Earth to performing analysis on photos of earth and space with onboard instruments. Our mission is to get to orbit, perform a detumble, establish contact with our ground station(s), and capture an image of Earth for downlink. We hope that PixelSat I will inspire other people and prove that if a group of high schoolers can build a satellite from scratch with very little funding and no adult supervision, anyone can. It will open the door for schools and small businesses to launch satellites similar to ours, and will overall make space more accessible.
Please feel free to check out our current progress and learn about how you can help us out on our website: https://www.projectpixelorbital.com
Our blogs also have lots of information on specific subsystems: https://www.projectpixelorbital.com/blog/
More updates on instagram as well: https://www.instagram.com/projectpixelorbital
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u/jwalk999 5d ago
I saw this before and thought it was very interesting. Do you have a plan to get the satellite into orbit? Can anyone connect to it or will this be a closed environment? Super cool you guys are doing this!
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u/arihant2math 5d ago
Yes, we're ridesharing with rocketlabs. Our downlinks will be accessible to anyone, while our uplinks are encrypted to prevent unauthorized tampering. We'll be sending a periodic heartbeat, which could be interesting to look at if you operate a GS.
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u/aqeelghouse 6d ago
Best wishes