Tesseract Inc.
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Student Group Profile.
Jean-Luc Albert
Evan Worthington
Manuel Freije
Tong-Hong Lin
Rohith Rajan
Problem Statement.
With the advent of low-cost CubeSat launches, it is now possible to establish a large constellation of low-cost, LEO satellites with basic communications and data collection services. A Silicon Valley venture capital firm has approached your small company about the possibility of designing, building, launching, and maintaining a system of CubeSats that photograph the entire surface of the earth every day. Dubbed the “Omnimapper Project”, they would like for your group of savvy satellite engineers to provide a basic design and cost estimate for the satellite system for deployment. They have contacted multiple small companies and will select
the most well-reasoned proposal that can deliver a daily photograph of the earth’s surface with the highest pixels/day/cost.
Proposals will be competitively ranked according to which mission concept best illustrates the Omnimapper concept. Objective evaluation of these proposals will pay close attention to the technical correctness, professional presentation, and the key metric: recorded and relayed pixels per day per 10-year total cost (deployment and operation). Pixel resolution should be high enough to make out basic features on the ground (streets, trees, houses, small rivers).
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