As of Thursday October 27, 2011 QSET recieved its accepentace into the 2012 Lunabotics Competition. QSET was the last team to register as minutes later the registration closed. QSET would like to thank Prof Marshall and Dean Woodhouse for their letters of support, without it we would not have been able to enter the competition.

Prof. Marshall has agreed to QSET’s faculty advisor for the Lunabotics Minining Competition. With his expertise in mining and robotics he is sure to be a valuable resource for the team.

We will be having our first team meetings this week for Cansat and Lunabotics on Tuesday and Thursday night at 7:30pm in rm120 in the ILC, new members must attend at least one of the meetings this week. CSDC will continue to have their meetings on Wednesday nights.

If you are interested in the joining the team click here to fill out an application or on the Join The Team tab at the top of the page. No experience necessary just the will to learn.

The first meetings will take place sometime next week and will begin brainstorming ideas for how best we should approach Cansat and Lunabotics. Before the first meeting you should read the rules of each competition.

This Wednesday Oct 5 at 7:30pm QSET will be having another recruitment night for those who missed last weeks. Come to rm120 in the ILC to find out information about the team and our competitions.

Tuesday Sept 27 at 7:30pm QSET in Dupuis 217, will be having an introductory night for potential new members. We will be going over what competitions we are involved with this year and how you can get involved.

Summer is almost over, school begins in two weeks, but QSET has been busy all summer. We competed in the 2011 Cansat competition down in Abilene TX in June, we came in 9th out of 21 teams that attended, this was almost entirely due to our radio malfunctioning at the moment of launch and thus no telemetry data was sent. Cansat is deceptive in its simplicity, it’s quite the challenge to pack that much electronics with batteries into such a tight container. Last year was our first time competing and we placed 2nd.

Since returning from Texas we went back to work on designing our Cubesat, which is a 4kg satellite, for the CSDC competition, for which our preliminary design review (PDR) is due at the end of September. Prof. Robbie has joined, helping us design his experiment for the satellite, which hopefully will be launched into orbit in 2013 or 2014.
This year QSET is considering picking up a 3rd competition called Lunabotics pending that enough committed team members join. Lunabotics is a two year old NASA competition held at the Kennedy Space Flight Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. It is an 80kg tele-operated mining robot with the goal to mine as much simulated lunar soil as possible in 15 minutes.

If you are interested in joining the team click Join The Team near the top of the page, you can sign up to receive an email when the team is having its introductory meeting during the first weeks of school. At the first meeting we will be going over the competitions in more detail, what position heads we’re hiring for (non paid), and how you can be involved with the team.
Tell you’re friends about us, we’re hoping for a large turnout in September.

QSET is having its first summer team meeting to go over our plan for this summer, tonight at 730 PM in room 120 in the ILC.
The Cansat competition is June 11, and the CSDC PDR is due in September.
Hope to See everyone out tonight.

April 12, 2011 is the 50th anniversary of Human space flight.

It’s also the 30th anniversary of the first Space Shuttle Flight.

Click the link below to apply to team:

Summer Application Form