UMD Team Selected for AFRL University Nanosatellite Program

A University of Maryland (UMD) team was selected to participate in the Air Force Research Laboratory’s (AFRL) University Nanosatellite Program’s (UNP). The two-year program funds student teams to design, fabricate and test small satellites.

UMD was one of ten universities selected from more than twenty candidates to participate in UNP’s eleventh program cycle, with the objective to promote and sustain university research and education focused on small satellites and related technologies.

The UNP kick-off will take place in late January in Albuquerque, N.M. The team will then begin work on their CubeSat, THEIA—Telescope Hosting Event-based Imaging Apparatus.