CubeSat VIOLET: New Brunswick's First Satellite

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CubeSat VIOLET was approximately 10 cm by 10 cm by 20 cm or roughly the size of a two-litre milk carton. It was designed, built, and tested, by the students in our research group called CubeSat NB, a first-of-its-kind partnership among the New Brunswick Community College, the Université de Moncton and the University of New Brunswick. The purpose of the project was student education and 274 students were part of this project. CubeSat NB was one the 15 teams in the Canadian CubeSat Project, inspired by the Canadian Space Agency. VIOLET's mission was to study space weather. It was deployed in a low earth orbit from the International Space Station in 2024 and, as planned, burned up on entry to the atmosphere. Despite over a million radio messages being sent to VIOLET, it did not answer. As they say, space is hard. Some lessons learned will be presented for groups who are considering building a nanosatellite in a university environment.


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  • 100 St. George Street
  • Toronto, Ontario
  • Canada M5S 3G3
  • Building: Sidney Smith Hall
  • Room Number: SS1071
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  • Starts 08 September 2025 04:00 AM UTC
  • Ends 18 September 2025 04:00 AM UTC
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Prof. Brent Petersen

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Brent Petersen is a professor in the department of electrical and computer engineering at the University of New Brunswick (UNB), a professional engineer with the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of New Brunswick, and a Senior Member of the IEEE. The speaker is currently a technical director in AMSAT-CA and a member of the Satellite Committee of the Radio Amateurs of Canada. The speaker received the Ph.D. from the department of systems and computer engineering at Carleton University in 1992, held a post-doctoral fellowship with IBM Zurich, was a staff and assistant professor with TRLabs and the University of Calgary, and since 1997, has been with UNB.




Authors: Brent Petersen, Troy T. Lavigne, Richard B. Langley, Samiha Lubaba, Noah Lydon, Quynh Nguyen, Joudi Al-Lathqani, Dhyan Baruah, Eke Kalu, Christian Herpers, Vardaan Malhotra, Tobias Nießen, Chris D. Rouse