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[edit] Welcome to ulcape.org

CAPE 1 picosatellite
CAPE 1 picosatellite

Welcome to ulcape.org, the source for information on the Cajun Advanced Picosatellite Experiment, more fondly known as C.A.P.E. Check back often for more information on the progress of the project and for announcements of prototype launches. The site is currrently going through a complete redesign and we are constantly adding new content on a daily basis.

[edit] Mission Statement

The goal of this project is to give students at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette the opportunity to research, design, develop, and maintain a low earth orbiting satellite.

[edit] Current News

  • CAPE Team Meetings are held in the CAPE lab at 6:30pm every Wednesday in Madison 146.
  • Balloon Team Meetings are held in the CAPE lab at 5:30pm every Thursday in Madison 146.

(25 October 2007): Jason LaBerteaux and Blaise Bernard present a white paper on CAPE-I and CAPE-II at the 26th Annual DASC Conference. This paper was written by Jason Moesta, Jason LaBerteaux, and Blaise Bernard. They were presented with an award for best student paper. You can read the paper here. Media:CAPE_Whitepaper.pdf

See CAPE1 Archive News for older news stories.

[edit] CAPE 2 Information

In 2009, the team is preparing to launch the university's second student built small-satellite in to space.

[edit] CAPE 2 Subsystems

[edit] 2007 BalloonSat

In 2007, the new CAPE team will launch a high altitude balloon into the upper atmosphere and take readings while testing some equipment. This will be the first time the new team has worked together and launched their own payload. A PIC programming tutorial can be found here.

[edit] CAPE 1 Information

[edit] CAPE-1 Audio Recordings

There are several audio recordings of CAPE-1 in the web directory http://ulcape.org/cape1_telemetry

Each audio file has a corresponding text file with the decoded CW (morse code) beacon. Anyone who knows morse code and is good with an audio editing program is free to download some of the files with missing decodings. Emails containing the decoded telemetry and the name of the audio file can be sent to jonathan at jonathanwagner.net

[edit] CAPE 1 Subsystems

[edit] Team Members

Our team members are a diligent group of graduate and undergraduate students who have climbed the learning curve required to take on a project of such complex scale as a picosatellite. These members are highly dedicated to their work on the satellite.

[edit] Team Members

Current Team
Alumni
Mentors


[edit] Interested in Becoming a Team Member?

Madison Hall
Madison Hall

To become a team member download an application from here, fill it out and either turn it in to a team member in Madison 146 (the C.A.P.E. lab) or the secretary at the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department office located in Madison Hall Room 208. Media:CAPE_Application.doc

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