UASPACE - Student Organization

As a team of multidisciplinary students, UASPACE aims to make The University of Alabama a space-faring university by successfully orbiting a student-made CubeSat while promoting higher education and STEM fields through outreach in the Black Belt of Alabama. UASPACEs BAMA-1 CubeSat was selected for the NASA CubeSat Launch Initiative in 2020 and was aboard the Astra LV-0008 vehicle for the failed attempt on February 10, 2022. BAMA-2 will be a re-build and re-flight effort of BAMA-1. Due to the unfortunate mission failure during launch, NASA has given us a second opportunity to build and launch our BAMA-2 CubeSAT through the NASA CubeSat Launch Initiative. We aim to have a fully built and functional satellite by May 2023. BAMA-2 is a technology demonstration mission that will conduct a flight demonstration of a drag sail module by rapidly deorbiting the satellite. Spacecraft equipped with drag sail technology will be able to reliably and rapidly deorbit, thus reducing space debris an...