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EE 415 - Spacecraft and Payload Engineering


Mixed classroom and hands-on sessions on spacecraft and payload engineering. Space system design overview. Multi degrees of freedom ground test platform. Optical and vision sensors. Avionics. Computer control for rendezvous and proximity (RPO) operation. Mechanisms for space construction. Simultaneous Location and Mapping (SLAM). Flexible constellation flight. Quantum payloads in space.

Credits: 3
Prerequisites: Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering majors must have completed EE 310  or EE 320  or EE 330 . Other Majors must have completed PHYS 181  or PHYS 196 .
Notes: This course is crosslisted with ECG 615. Credit at the 600-level requires additional work.