2 papers
physics.ed-ph2025
PULSE-A Mission Overview: Optical Communications for Undergraduate Students
Logan Hanssler, Seth Knights, Graydon Schulze-Kalt +14
Recent advances in the size, weight, and power (SWaP) requirements for space-based sensing have dramatically increased the demand for high-bandwidth downlink. However, high data ra…
physics.app-ph2025
Development of an Open-Source Spacecraft Bus for the PULSE-A CubeSat
Graydon Schulze-Kalt, Robert Pitu, Spencer Shelton +18
The undergraduate-led Polarization-modUlated Laser Satellite Experiment (PULSE-A) at the University of Chicago seeks to demonstrate the feasibility of circular polarization shift k…