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2019 ECE Gilchrist Mi-TEE

Cade Wright, Electrical Engineering Undergraduate Student, works on the antennae of the Mi-TEE cubesate inside the Climate & Space Research Building at

2455 Hayward Street in Ann Arbor, MI. on March 31, 2019.

Mi-TEE (Miniature Tether Electrodynamics Experiment) is a proof of concept run by Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Brian Gilchrist and is a part of the University of Michigan's Multidisciplinary Design Program that will help space explorers better understand the feasibility of a novel propulsion technology – miniature electrodynamic (ED) tethers – as means to provide propellantless propulsion to new classes of very small satellites known as picosats and femtosats.

A NASA space mission for MiTEE - 1 is planned for the first quarter of 2020.

Photo by Robert Coelius/Michigan Engineering, Communications and Marketing

 

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Uploaded on November 13, 2019
Taken on May 8, 2019