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“It feels so incredible to know that Phoenix is soon going to be able to do everything that we’ve designed it to do, and really make a difference,” Rogers said. ASU student-led team sends 'Phoenix' satellite to space, Recapping ASU football's defense in loss to USC, Recapping ASU football's offense in loss to USC, ASU professors warn risks of superspreader events in upcoming holiday season, What Mario Kart characters would have received as their senior superlatives, Satire: 10 Hours in an ASU COVID-19 Testing Facility, Active COVID-19 cases within ASU community jump as semester nears end, State Press Play: Off-campus ASU students selected for random COVID-19 testing. In addition to focusing on Phoenix, the plan is for the satellite to gather thermal images of Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, Atlanta, Baltimore and Minneapolis. The students’ creation weighs just 8.6 pounds and is about the size of a loaf of bread — 12 inches long by 4 inches wide. The team will use the images to demonstrate the density of buildings in multiple cities in order to better understand the heat island effect. The ASU Phoenix CubeSat team successfully launched its satellite from the International Space Station on Feb. 19, marking one of the goals in a years-long project by the University. Rogers graduated in May with her bachelor’s degree and stayed on this fall to start a master’s degree program in aerospace engineering at ASU. “I shed a couple of tears of joy as I was watching it go up.”. After years of research and development, it has been incredible to see the project grow from a mere concept on paper to a physical spacecraft that will soon be in orbit about the Earth, collecting data that will contribute to more sustainable urban growth for future generations. Phoenix intends to isolate one of those wavelength bands by studying urban areas in the band of 7-14μm and investigating the effectiveness of using commercial off-the-shelf parts to complete the science objective.

RECORD HIGH: Heat deaths in Phoenix reached a record high in 2018. Some of the students created detailed maps of each city dividing the landscape into 17 climate zones, ranging from “compact low-rise” to “open mid-rise” to “scattered trees.”. When solicitations for the newest round of the USIP program were released in the fall of 2015, Dr. Judd Bowman (Phoenix Project Investigator) decided to pursue the opportunity and began investigating a project concept that could feasibly be proposed and developed by an undergraduate student team. Environmental coverage on azcentral.com and in The Arizona Republic is supported by a grant from the Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust. “The most important thing to come out of this mission are the 80 students that worked on it.”. Rogers said she usually arrived at the lab at 7 a.m. and worked until midnight. For more stories that matter, subscribe to azcentral.com. Rogers said she is excited to see the data products that the CubeSat will generate applied to the real world. Support local journalism: Subscribe to azcentral.com today. "After over four months of sitting aboard the International Space Station, the spacecraft and its team have been prepared for its launch into low Earth orbit."

For now, Phoenix has been placed inside a deployer pod on the space station. “It was probably the most memorable experience I’ve ever had in my life,” Sarah Rogers, the 22-year-old project manager, said.

After the proposal was awarded in April 2016, the science objective was refined to study how the organization of Local Climate Zones (LCZs) contributed to the Urban Heat Island Effect, thereby giving the team a specific hypothesis to prove or disprove with the science investigation. Reach the reporter at dgainor@asu.edu or follow @DGainorOfficial on Twitter. Long-term strategies for combatting heat in cities range from installing “cool roofs” that reflect more sunlight to planting trees to give neighborhoods more shade. Four years ago, the students wrote a proposal to build the satellite and obtained $200,000 in NASA funding. Along with the Phoenix satellite and other cargo, the spacecraft delivered six other CubeSats made by students at other universities. COULD PHOENIX BE NEXT? But climate change and the heat island effect are combining to drive temperatures to new highs. They calculate that the satellite will be in space for two years before it reenters the atmosphere and burns up. Arizona State University is "One university in many places" — five distinctive campuses throughout metropolitan Phoenix that create a federation of unique colleges and schools. Alec Lee Spencer Niblett IV, the science team's lead and an anthropology senior, is primarily responsible for categorizing and analyzing the urban heat island effect through the images from Phoenix.

“(The pictures) will have a data packet that has telemetry information with it, which will say the orientation of the satellite, the inclination, the target point, the altitude and the time and date. The ASU Phoenix CubeSat team successfully launched its satellite from the International Space Station on Feb. 19, marking one of the goals in a years-long project by the University. And the Phoenix CubeSat mission has helped her prepare for the next phase of her space career. The overlying concept was developed from Dr. Philip Christensen’s idea to make a small (but not CubeSat small) satellite called ‘CitySat’ which would capture images of urban areas across several wavelength bands. They also plan to check temperatures recorded in the thermal images against on-the-ground measurements. In August, Rogers and fellow teammate Vivek Chacko flew to Houston to hand-deliver the spacecraft. They hope it will function for at least a year to study changes during the four seasons. Phoenix is ASU's first fully student-led CubeSat project to be developed by the university, and as of November 2, 2019, it became ASU's first CubeSat to be launched into space. The Phoenix CubeSat will remain aboard the space station until mid-January when it’s scheduled to deploy into orbit and begin using its infrared camera to capture thermal images of Phoenix and other cities.

While the USIP grant may have brought the project to fruition, the incredible work and dedication of the student team, along with the guidance and mentorship provided by ASU affiliates, NASA, JPL, Nanoracks, and other friends made along the way have helped to bring this project to life and make it an adventure unlike any other, and dare I say it - out of this world!

Mission control announced: “T-minus 10, 9, 8…” The onlookers joined in, counting loudly: “3, 2, 1.”. As the countdown began at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia, a crowd of engineers and scientists stood on bleachers in the sun, looking out across a grassy field and wetlands at a rocket on the launchpad. “They began as a team with a lot of excitement but no experience,” Danny Jacobs, an assistant professor and faculty adviser on the project, said.

They are all ASU, providing access to all the university's strength and innovation, yet each offers attributes and focuses to meet the needs of any learner. pic.twitter.com/QOxQeVBzhN. After more than four months of sitting aboard the International Space Station, the spacecraft is now in low orbit close to where it was launched.

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Extreme summer heat has long been part of life in Phoenix, which is the county’s hottest major city. If all goes as planned, a door will pop open and a spring will eject the satellite into space. USIP was designed to allow undergraduate students to pursue research related to the aerospace industry that would typically be done by graduate students or in the industry. READ MORE: ASU student-led team sends 'Phoenix' satellite to space. The students are now preparing for the next phase, which will involve operating the satellite from a station on the ASU campus in Tempe. On the bleachers, a group of nine young engineers and computer scientists watched the rocket until it disappeared into the blue sky. Many other satellites are circling the Earth recording images, but almost all of them look at the visible spectrum of light or near-infrared, which helps scientists study vegetation.

Sometime in January, astronauts plan to deploy the CubeSat into orbit. And heat-associated deaths in the Phoenix area are on the rise, reaching a record of 182 deaths reported in Maricopa County last year. This will allow them to help develop a more sustainable infrastructure for future generations, Rogers said. Your California Privacy Rights/Privacy Policy. "It can start generating power from the batteries, which then will supply power to the rest of the spacecraft.”, Awesome video of @ASU @SESEASU @ASUEngineeringPhoenix CubeSat deployment from ISS this morning!

For now, the team has been sharing a video that Rogers’ classmate Trevor Bautista recorded of the rocket thundering into the sky in Virginia. ASU was provided with the opportunity to develop Phoenix through the efforts of NASA and its Undergraduate Student Instrument Project (USIP) program. It won’t be georeferenced.”. For the core group who continued working on the CubeSat after graduating, the Nov. 2 launch was a milestone to celebrate. The group, all of them students or recent graduates of Arizona State University, built a miniature research satellite named Phoenix that launched into space aboard an Antares rocket … Analyzing the effects of LCZs offers a new way of studying the development of UHIs, which will provide invaluable information to urban planners as cities continue to expand. They hope that by capturing infrared thermal images of the cities, the satellite will generate block-by-block data on heat trends, which could help urban planners design cooler cityscapes to withstand the effects as the world continues to heat up due to the burning of fossil fuels. L.A. installs off-white streets to beat heat. “Our mission is novel, and the way that we’re studying the urban heat island effect itself is also still relatively new within the scientific community,” Rogers said.

The Arizona State Press Snapchat, @statepress. Thermal images aren’t as common. Alongside the rises in global temperatures unleashed by climate change, urban heat islands add to hotter conditions in cities. Many of them spent long hours designing the spacecraft, piecing together the components, testing its systems, and writing code to make it all work.

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