2012 Papers and Presentations

The Colorado Undergraduate Space Research Symposium is an opportunity for students to present their current research and ideas in space related fields to their peers, industry and academia.  Four schools from around Colorado submitted papers this year and presented their research during the Symposium.  Teams and individuals, freshman through seniors, have researched a variety of topics and presented their research or practical engineering projects.

  • Paper - Technical Content, Scientific Merit and Originality (45%)
  • Paper - Practical Application (15%)
  • Paper - Clarity of Writing (10%)
  • Presentation - Visual and Oral presentation and response to questions (30%)

Session A

01_CUSRS Development of a Near-Infrared Cavity Ring-Down
Spectroscopy System for CO2 Isotope Detection
Presentation
02_CUSRS The Challenges of Characterizing a Wind & Temperature
Spectrometer for Space Weather Measurements
Presentation
03_CUSRS Reentry Experiment SAT-X Presentation
04_CUSRS PolarCube: ALL-STAR as a Platform for Passive
Radiometric Sensing
Presentation

Session B

05_CUSRS Hovercraft Planetary Rover and its Application for
Navigating Liquid Methane Seas of Titan
Presentation
06_CUSRS Remote Use Incubator Design and Fabrication                 Presentation
07_CUSRS A Distributed Common Ground Segment for
Educational Nanosatellites
Presentation
08_CUSRS Implementation of a Real-Time Operating System
on a Small Satellite Platform
Presentation

Session C

09_CUSRS Autonomous Sample Retriever Presentation
10_CUSRS Design and Construction of an Autonomous Robot           Presentation
11_CUSRS Self-Orientating Autonomous Pathfinder (S.O.A.P.) Presentation
12_CUSRS The Lazarus Project Presentation
13_CUSRS Spherical Preemptive Autonomous Rover (S.P.A.R.)  

Session D

14_CUSRS Team HELIOS Presentation
15_CUSRS C.M.A.S. Climate Mapping with Altitude System                Presentation
16_CUSRS MARS Return Fuel Production Using Table Top
Electrolysis & Sabatier Reaction
Presentation
17_CUSRS Project Ares: Creating a Feasible Habitat for
Astronauts on Mars
Presentation
18_CUSRS Selective Pointing Apparatus for Research of
Turbulence and Atmospheric Noise Variation
Presentation

 

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