On March 30th, 2011, the University of Louisiana at Lafayette College of Engineering opened it’s doors to prospective highschool students considering joining the University, and as always CAPE was present talking to the students about the program and experiences gained on the team and at the University at large. Hopefully we inspired a lot of students to consider ULL their choice for college!

Full Gallery: http://gallery.ulcape.org/v/Outreach/engineeringday2011/

Special thanks to Ashley Isabelle Photography for coming out and taking photos of the day for us! Check out her website for more information on future shoots. http://www.ashleytakesphotos.com/

Recently Chase Savoy attended the First Annual University of Louisiana Systems Undergraduate Research Day to present the research done by our team. Over 60 students from all eight UL System universities participated. CAPE hopes to return in future years to present our developments.

Featured: University of Louisiana at Lafayette presenters – Molly Dugas, Ariane Martin, Manik Rajora and Chase Savoy

The last few weeks in the lab have been pretty busy with some pretty exciting progress for our satellite team.

First off the Communications Subsystem has their first prototype board in, and are busy testing it and gearing up to write the flight code soon.

- photo of the Communications Subsystem prototype board fully populated

In other news our Mechanical Subsystem has been working on attaching the hinges to our demo satellite structure with deployable panels. Gotta say it looks pretty cool!

- the structure with all the deployables attached with working hinges.

- Another view  of the structure.

We’ve recently had the CrawSat III Launch featured in ULToday.com. Special thanks to Dr. Joe Abraham for the article!

Link: http://ultoday.com/node/3374

Gallery Link: http://gallery.ulcape.org/v/Press_Publicity/CrawSatIII_Launched_Mar_2011.jpg.html