Irvington High School CubeSat Initiative

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We are a team of passionate high schoolers representing Irvington High School. We have taken on the challenge of designing, building, and launching a CubeSat as part of the IHS Maker Club. This 1-2U CubeSat will orbit Earth, capturing multispectral images for environmental research while testing student-designed propulsion, communications, and attitude control systems. Beyond its technical goals, MakerSat is about proving that young people from public schools can lead real space missions and inspire the next generation of engineers, scientists, and innovators. With your help, we’ll bring this project to life, put our satellite into space, and show what student-led aerospace can achieve.

About the Mission:

What’s a CubeSat?

A CubeSat is a small, standardized satellite used for scientific experiments in space.

Our Mission Goals:

IHS MakerSat is a 1-2U CubeSat mission designed by the IHS Maker Club, a student-led space systems engineering team from Irvington High School. The satellite aims to demonstrate modular, student-developed space systems while conducting an Earth observation experiment.

The mission’s primary payload will capture multispectral images for environmental monitoring and disaster response analysis. Additionally, IHS MakerSat will serve as a platform for future low-cost propulsion and communications technology demonstrations, integrating student-built subsystems for:

Why It Matters:

This mission will empower students, advance small satellite research, and make space more accessible for young innovators.

Budget:

CubeSat Structure: $3,000

Electric Power System: $5,500

On Board COmputer and Communications: $7,300

PayLoad and Camera Module: $4,250

ATtitude Determination and Control System: $1,810

Ground Segment and Radio Licensing: $7,200

Travel: $4,500

contingency (10%): $4,440

Total: $38,000

Timeline:

Design & Prototyping: June 2026

Build & Testing: January 2028

Launch: Late 2028

The mission is designed to support STEM education outreach and provide practical space systems engineering experience for high school students, fostering early-career exposure to aerospace technology development.