UAH TERMINUS student group set to launch biggest, most advanced spacecraft with NASA

Credit: Russ Nelson / UAH

The UAH TERMINUS Spaceflight Research Group (TSRG) displays the tethers they hope to deploy after a NASA RockSat-X launch in Virginia this August, marking the smallest satellite tether release ever attempted in space.

« UAH TERMINUS student group set to launch biggest, most advanced spacecraft with NASA

Credit: Courtesy Team TERMINUS

TERMINUS team members added their signatures to the base of the payload assembly they are preparing to fly.

« UAH TERMINUS student group set to launch biggest, most advanced spacecraft with NASA

Credit: Courtesy Team TERMINUS

The UAH spacecraft includes two primary systems: a spacecraft bus called JUPITER that seeks to reduce the cost and complexity of future TERMINUS payloads by being reusable and modular, and a special satellite deployment experiment named SwingSat.

« UAH TERMINUS student group set to launch biggest, most advanced spacecraft with NASA

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