Engineering students at Memorial are designing and building Newfoundland and Labrador’s first Earth observation satellite.
Engineering students at Memorial are designing and building Newfoundland and Labrador’s first Earth observation satellite.
The cubesat is about the size of a one-litre milk carton, and is known as Killick-1.
The four-year project is a collaboration between the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science and C-CORE.
Engineering professor Dr. Weimin Huang and C-CORE’s Desmond Power are the project leads.
Space systems and Earth observation
Dr. Huang has previously successfully applied global navigation satellite system technology for detecting oil spills on the sea surface, detecting sea ice and estimating sea-ice concentration.
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