Perhaps the most important impact CatSat will have is the experience provided to the students working on it.
CatSat represents the first student-built CubeSat mission at the University of Arizona since 2006. From its inception back in 2018, students have been involved at every step of the process. Between long hours spent in the clean room working on hardware, late nights working on ground stations, and long travel for vibrational testing and integration, the students working on this mission have gone through every milestone of a space mission. These experiences will set them up for success as they begin their careers.
Students working on CatSat have been of many different departments at the University, including Aerospace Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Astronomy, and Optical Sciences, and of many different year levels, from Undergraduate to Doctoral. For a more comprehensive list of people on the team, check out our People page.