University of Victoria

Published purpose

This project proposes the development of an end-to-end “design, build, test and launch” 3U-CubeSat for monitoring climate change, and the associated engineering challenges to design and integrate science payloads and all the other subsystems with significant design limitations in terms of weight, volume and power. Skya’anaSat will aim to collect scientific data on the Earth’s atmosphere and oceans in order to improve our understanding on the mechanisms of climate change. The payload design combines active microwave and high frequency (HF) radio sensing from orbit, via software-defined radio (SDR), to make a powerful and novel climate and Earth science monitoring satellite in a highly-compact form and quick end-to-end development.