Space Technologies at Cal: TIME II + Lunar Hopper
Maker Faire Bay Area 2024
October 18th-20th
Space Technologies at Cal (STAC) is not a typical engineering club at UC Berkeley that focuses on a set competition, but rather we focus on making strides in innovating space technologies. Our initiatives ranging from CubeSats and autonomous rovers to biological microgravity experiments aimed at improving life here on Earth and exploring the cosmos. The two projects on display are TIME II and Lunar Hopper.
TIME II, or The Interstellar Microgravity Experiments, is testing the effects of antibiotics on the gene expression of E.coli, a common infective bacteria, in microgravity to better plan for a human future in space. Lunar Hopper is developing an autonomous jumping robot to explore cratered regions of the moon and map ice deposits that can sustain a long-term human presence.
STAC
We’re a group of Berkeley undergrads really passionate about experiments in space, with Jared leading the mechanical team, with Jeremy, Ramzi, Jayden and Akira under him, James leading bio with Avani and Khanh under him, and Nohl and Ashvin leading the electrical and programming parts, with Zeel and Neel.
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