Welcome to CubeSat at Parks College
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MISSION: The BillikenSat-II team will develop a working prototype Pico-satellite that conforms to the CubeSat standard, and one that incorporates Bio-Fuel cell test experiment as our payload. We will, by the end of this year, build a flight ready model of BillikenSat-II, after rigorous testing and verification of our design.
PAYLOAD: The payload on board BillikenSat-II will be a series of Biofuel Cells designed by the Minteer Lab in the Department of Chemistry at SLU, to be tested in space. Biofuel Cells create electricity in much the same way normal hydrogen fuel cells do, except they use enzymes as catalysts instead of noble metals like platinum. The Biofuel Cells have the advantage over noble metals in that they can use a wide variety of fuels for power generation such as alcohol, sugar, soybean oil, and glycerol. This allows the Biofuel Cells to run for extended periods of time on the same volume of fuel compared to hydrogen fuel cells because the fuels have 2-5 fold the energy density that hydrogen does. The Biofuel Cells designed for BillikenSat-II will be tested in space to determine their viability in such an environment, and pave the way for future Biofuel Cell implementation in spacecraft.
EVENTS: The BillikenSat-II team plans to present at the following events-
- 2007 SmallSat Conference (Logan, UT) Aug. 13-16
REMINDERS:
- The Ben Corrado and Ryan Graue will present the Billiken Sat II design at the SmallSat conference in Logan Utah Aug. 13-17.
- First Fall semester meeting: TBD in MDH 2088
LINKS:
CONTACTS:
FACULTY ADVISOR: Dr. Sanjay Jayaram- sjayaram@slu.edu
PROJECT MANAGER: Ben Corrado- corradob@slu.edu
SSRL LAB MDH 1047: (314) 977-8440
SPONSORS:
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