Mark George Jaber
Electrical engineering
Hometown: Chandler, AZ, United States
Graduation date: Fall 2027
Additional details: Honors student
FURI | Spring 2026
Deployable Crossed-Dipole Antenna for CubeSat Uplink and Downlink
Space research is highly inaccessible due to the difficulty of engineering, research, and design of satellite hardware. CubeSats provide methods representing one of the lowest barriers to entry for accessing space research, and as such can be worked on by students without the budget needed for a larger satellite. This project aims to ease the communication aspect by delivering an open source design for a deployable CubeSat antenna at 915MHz using LoRa modulation, which will allow for appreciable data rates under non-ideal conditions. Deployability of the antenna is necessary to fit within the dimensions of a CubeSat, and open-sourcing the design allows for other researchers to manufacture and further develop the design for future satellite projects. Capability of the antenna will be tested by flying the antenna on a weather balloon and measuring RSSI and noise parameters on the ground. The end goal for this project is to lower the barrier for entry for space research, allowing for projects with fewer resources to be completed.
Mentor: Michael Goryll
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