ISP-POD

April 2021:

This month, the ISP-POD team been building their 2021–2022 team. Project lead, Grace Guarraia is excited to prepare new members for research and is aiming to wrap up thermal analysis this quarter. She hopes in the next month, the team will start doing radiation analysis for ISP-POD.

August-September 2020:

The goal of the SURP is to design a thermal control system that can regulate the spacecraft’s temperature for the duration of an interplanetary journey. To that effect, the team has been focusing on creating an accurate thermal model to represent the spacecraft in the most extreme environments it might experience. Additionally, they have been developing a control algorithm that will be the brain behind their active thermal control. The combination of these will allow the team to simulate the ISP-POD’s thermal environment and how it reacts to that environment.