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UBC’s Point Grey Campus is located on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the xwməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam) people, who for millennia have passed on their culture, history, and traditions from one generation to the next on this site.
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UBC Orbit is a satellite design team from the University of British Columbia, dedicated to the innovation, design, and development of satellites. We are comprised of over 90 undergraduate and graduate students from a variety of disciplines, and provide students with an opportunity to develop the skills they need for a career in the aerospace industry.
ALEASAT is an Earth-observation satellite that can be used by radio amateurs to assist in disaster relief operations. Equipped with an on-board camera, ALEASAT will allow radio amateurs to request imagery of a specific location on Earth, and then downlink that imagery directly from the satellite. In contrast to methods used by most other amateur satellites with an Earth observation capability, ALEASAT’s targeted approach has direct applications to disaster monitoring and relief activities. This project can serve as a precursor to a future amateur satellite constellation dedicated to disaster monitoring. In addition to ALEASAT itself, the team is also building the necessary ground station infrastructure in order to communicate with the satellite.
ALEASAT is currently being developed by student members of UBC Orbit and SFU Satellite Design Team. With support from UBC, the Radio Amateurs of Canada, and the European Space Agency's Fly Your Satellite! Programme, we are in the process of building and testing our satellite with an aim to launch it in a few years.
Keep an eye on our Instagram and Linkedin pages for when recruitment opens, and see Join Us for openings. Hiring will begin in September 2025 ✨💙
Natural hazards are environmental events that have the potential to impact humans, communities, and societies because of their location, severity, and frequency. For example, earthquakes, landslides, and wildfires can have devastating effects on structures and human activities. Your challenge is to map (a) natural hazard(s) using data from the NASA Natural Hazards datasets over a region of interest, and analyze the data to identify patterns or correlations to propose innovative insights or solutions that could help communities prepare for, respond to, or recover from these hazards.
Prizes for the top 3 winners are as follows:
1st Place: $150 + Passes to the H.R. MacMillan Space Centre
2nd Place: $100 + Loafe Cafe gift cards & Teadot free drink vouchers
3rd Place: $50 + Teadot gift card & Teadot free drink vouchers