In the academic year 2014-15, the Faculty of Engineering and the Environment at the University of Southampton ran a Group Design Project (GDP) as part of the UoS3 project.
GDPs involve undergraduate students who are in their Masters (fourth) year at University. The Engineering GDP was tasked to start the development of the UoS3 spacecraft bus. This includes designing:
- Attitude control system
- Power raising and distribution subsystem
- Structural subsystem including any mechanisms
- Telecommunications subsystem
In addition the the Engineering GDP are responsible for:
- Defining the spacecraft operations
Group Members
There are 10 members of the Engineering GDP:
- Raluca Cojocariu
- Jonny Coates
- Georgina Coles
- Mark Coulter
- Perry Fung
- Joel Galley
- Joe Mann
- Kavindha Ratwatte
- Stuart Reid
- Luke Taylor
