WashU Satellite is a student-run space mission engineering team. Our partners put our hardware in the air and our members in the industry.
Become a partnerThe schools, centres and programmes paying for the hardware. Between them they cover structures, avionics, machining, launch and the faculty guidance behind every mission we fly.
Our home school, and the single largest source of funding behind the hardware. The Dean's Fund pays for structures, avionics and the machining that turns a design into a flight article.
Backs the science side of the missions, including our work through the Air Force Research Laboratory's University Nanosatellite Program, and gives us the faculty guidance behind AIRIS and SCALAR.
The Air Force Research Laboratory programme that funds university-built spacecraft. It backs the account our physics-side hardware runs through, and it is the path VECTOR is being developed toward.
Washington University's centre for planetary science, astrophysics and fundamental physics, with a history in major space missions. They have funded our missions directly, and our faculty advisor is a research professor there.
Companies who give us parts, manufacturing and software instead of cash. Much of what flies was cut, machined, simulated or designed with something on this list.
Commercial-level simulation licences, unlimited in node and cell count, with training and support. We use it for structural, thermal and orbital analysis that the student edition could not run.
Mechanical components and custom parts. Aluminium extrusion, brackets, fasteners, shafts and bearings for the AIRIS gondola and the GS-2 ground station, plus Fictiv for machined one-offs.
Custom enclosures, machined brackets and electro-mechanical assembly. Supporting the weatherproof rooftop enclosure and rack hardware for our second-generation ground station.
Laser cutting and sheet metal fabrication. Their parts are already flying on AIRIS, and they have backed the team across three separate sponsorship rounds.
CAD licences for every member of the team, plus certification exams that give students a credential to leave with.
Email us and we’ll send over our partnership packet, current mission status, and what recognition looks like at each level.