Cal Poly's CP DAVE (Damping And Vibrations Experiment) launched on September 15th, 2018 on-board the last launch of the Delta II rockets developed by ULA alongside the ICESAT 2. The mission has a goal of measuring the 'jitters' in a micro-gravity environment and using particle dampers that uses momentum exchange to eliminate the 'jitters'. As of October 2018, the mission is in full operational state and we have made many successful contacts with the spacecraft.
Alongside my fellow peers (I'm the farthest to the left), we make-up the aerospace team at PolySat. Our goal is to design the control systems for our spacecrafts and handle the orbital mechanics required to carry-out the mission. For missions, like DAVE, we used many different forms of controls to stabilize our spacecrafts in orbit. Some of those systems consist of magnetorquers and reaction wheels where we build and simulate the control loop on the ground and once proven to be flight worthy, it is put onto the spacecrafts before launch.
