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- The Sapphire Microsatellite - Students and
staff operated the Stanford Sapphire Microsatellite, launched from Kodiak Alaska in September 2001. Several members of the laboratory staff served as key
members of the Sapphire design team in the mid-1990's. Sapphire
was capable of digital Earth photography, FM digital voice
broadcasts, and MEMS sensor characterization. As part of these
operations, lab personnel experimentally demonstrated an advanced
model-based reasoning technique for managing space system anomalies.
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- Monterey Undersea Robot Deployment - In late
May 2003, students deployed Triton off the Cypress Sea boat in Monterey
Bay. The deployment allowed operational practice of collaborative
robot - SCUBA diver activities. In addition, students from this
year's Marine Operations classes crewed the mission in order to
complete the requirements of that class. A number of local high
school students also participated in the mission as part of the
Lab's outreach efforts.
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- High Altitude Balloon - An SCU GPS/transceiver
avionics package was flown on a High Ships high altitude balloon on
September 28, 2002 as part of a anniversary celebration for the city
of Frederick Oklahoma. Graduate student Charlie Chao integrated
the avionics and tracked the balloon during its flight. The SCU
package flew with a RocketCam camera that videotaped the ascent.
Two other balloons deployed paper airplanes at 60,000 feet as part of
an educational outreach event.
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- Bronco Blimp Halftime Shows - Lab students are
flying the Bronco blimp during half-time of this season's women's and
men's basketball games. The blimp is also being used as a technology
testbed in the lab's senior design project program; the airship team
is extending an internet-based piloting system and will be
implementing an automatic control system.
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Lake Tahoe Geological Mission - For three days in
late August 001, students and staff deployed the Triton undersea vehicle in Lake
Tahoe in support of scientists at the Scripps Institution of
Oceanography. Video-based science data was collected in support of
geology studies focusing on fault lines in the Lake's region. Technical
highlights included the first field demonstration of Triton's new
microcontroller-based interface for the Triton control console.
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- Artemis Launch & Operation - The Artemis
satellites were sent into space in January 2000 during a spectacular
nighttime launch from Vandenberg, California on an OSP Minotaur
rocket.
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- Arctic Shipwreck Search - This 1999 expedition
to Barrow Alaska served as a follow-up marine archeology mission to
the 1998 Jeremy Project.
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- Jeremy Project - Featured on the Discovery
Channel, this August 1998 underwater mission in the Arctic located the
remains of a sunken ship believed to have been a part of New Bedford
Whaling Fleet that became shipwrecked off the coast of Alaska in
1971. The project also served as a demonstration of NASA Mars
Pathfinder image processing technology for marine science research.
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