{"id":128,"date":"2021-05-25T13:47:58","date_gmt":"2021-05-25T17:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/wisenetlab\/?page_id=128"},"modified":"2025-05-21T22:02:04","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T02:02:04","slug":"mesat1","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/wisenetlab\/mesat1\/","title":{"rendered":"MESAT1 (Maine&#8217;s 1st Small Satellite)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to <strong>MESAT1<\/strong> page, Maine&#8217;s 1st Small Satellite<\/p>\n<p>MESAT1 is was launched to space onboard Fireflyblack rocket on July 4th, 2024. It carries three payloads designed by\u00a0 students in Falmouth High school, Fryeburg Academy, and Saco Middle School.\u00a0 UMaine and USM engineering teams collaborated on building the satellite and getting it ready for launch in collaboration with AMSAT, Aurora and NERRS. The CubeSat launch was funded by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/feature\/nasa-announces-11th-round-of-candidates-for-cubesat-space-missions\">NASA CSLI program<\/a> and its design and development was sponsored by NASA, MSGC, and UMaine. The initial enclosure design was completed at IMRC Center and final bus was built by NSL.\u00a0 Student team designed, built, and tested various PCB boards including flight computer, EPS, Battery and camera boards to name a few.<\/p>\n<p>Telemetery data is avaiable <a href=\"https:\/\/db.satnogs.org\/satellite\/ANJN-0857-0652-4935-2307\">here<\/a>. MESAT1 was awarded an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amsat.org\/mesat1-designated-mesat1-oscar-122-mo-122\/\">OSCAR designation<\/a> on Oct 2, 2024 by AMSAT as MO-122, one of the 122 orbiting satellites carrying an amateur radio, and only one of the 10 universities in the US receiving this recognition.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-133\" src=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/wisenetlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/175\/2021\/05\/MESAT1-300x205.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"439\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/wisenetlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/175\/2021\/05\/MESAT1-300x205.jpg 300w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/wisenetlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/175\/2021\/05\/MESAT1-768x525.jpg 768w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/wisenetlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/175\/2021\/05\/MESAT1-105x72.jpg 105w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/wisenetlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/175\/2021\/05\/MESAT1-317x217.jpg 317w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/wisenetlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/175\/2021\/05\/MESAT1-423x289.jpg 423w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/wisenetlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/175\/2021\/05\/MESAT1-634x434.jpg 634w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/wisenetlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/175\/2021\/05\/MESAT1.jpg 775w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 85vw, (max-width: 768px) 67vw, (max-width: 1024px) 62vw,439px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-143\" src=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/wisenetlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/175\/2021\/12\/EM-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/wisenetlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/175\/2021\/12\/EM-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/wisenetlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/175\/2021\/12\/EM-105x131.jpg 105w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/wisenetlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/175\/2021\/12\/EM.jpg 278w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 85vw, (max-width: 768px) 67vw, (max-width: 1024px) 62vw,240px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-140\" src=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/wisenetlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/175\/2021\/12\/IMG_0571-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"226\" height=\"301\" srcset=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/wisenetlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/175\/2021\/12\/IMG_0571-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/wisenetlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/175\/2021\/12\/IMG_0571-768x1023.jpg 768w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/wisenetlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/175\/2021\/12\/IMG_0571-105x140.jpg 105w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/wisenetlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/175\/2021\/12\/IMG_0571-317x422.jpg 317w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/wisenetlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/175\/2021\/12\/IMG_0571-423x564.jpg 423w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/wisenetlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/175\/2021\/12\/IMG_0571-634x845.jpg 634w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/wisenetlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/175\/2021\/12\/IMG_0571-846x1127.jpg 846w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/wisenetlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/175\/2021\/12\/IMG_0571.jpg 908w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 85vw, (max-width: 768px) 67vw, (max-width: 1024px) 62vw,226px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Faculty Leads:\u00a0<\/strong>Ali Abedi, Jeremy Qualls, Ashanthi Maxworth<\/p>\n<p><strong>Student Team:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Joseph Patton, Ph.D Student, Project Manager\/Power System<\/li>\n<li>Travis Russell, M.Sc Student, Radio Engineer<\/li>\n<li>Steele Muchmore-Allen, 4+1 Graduate Student, Flight Engineer<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to MESAT1 page, Maine&#8217;s 1st Small Satellite MESAT1 is was launched to space onboard Fireflyblack rocket on July 4th, 2024. 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