Space Technologies at Cal (STAC) is proud to report on a very productive year filled with engineering landmarks and achievements. Here is a brief outline of some of the highlights of the year from our STAC family! This post only contains a brief description of all the hard work the…

Space Technologies at Cal is proud to announce a partnership with Bay Area Circuits to ensure that we can turn our PCB designs into effective prototypes. Bay Area Circuits is a leading PCB Manufacturer in the bay area. They offer PCB prototyping with 24-hour turnaround for two-layer and multilayer boards…

Space Technologies at Cal (STAC) is proud to announce our partnership with Altium to help power our PCB design and further develop the electronics for all of our missions to reach a new level of technical nuance. Altium is the industry standard for electronic design and development and ensures every…

The rocket reusability race will come to a halt unless it considers integration time. For years, we have heard companies talk about reducing the turnaround time of reusable rocket stages, but only recently has that conversation evolved to turnaround times on the order of days. However, a daily turnaround seems…

In late Fall, we will be launching a payload into space. For FREE!!! Thanks to Blue Origin. STAC recently won a competition where the winner would receive a free launch on Blue Origin’s New Shepard space craft. The competition is sponsored by Dent:Space, a conference held last September in SF. The two Co-founders of Dent (dentthefuture.com), Jason and Steve, flew two of our members out to make the big announcement at the Dent Sun Valley, Idaho conference.

Do what is hard, not what is easy! When forming a team in a new organization it is easy to segment and compartmentalize a person to a certain job. Unfortunately this can lead to many great people not being able to speak their great innovative ideas! That is why at STAC we make it our mission to allow people to foster in an area they strive in, but also take part in any/every part of the STAC organization! This creates a healthy team dynamic and creates a limitless organization.

When building a product, piece of hardware, or space tech it is always easy to get stuck in the planning/design phase. So it is important to take your initial designs and make something quick, easy, and fast to determine what needs to be improved. Today we turned our first designs into a prototype and determined that we will need to rethink our arrangement of parts inside our first Microgravity Experiment.

We are excited to announce that we have official won a spot to space! Below is a sneak peak at our winning payload design! Stay tuned for more details!