SlugSat mission:
To educate and develop the next generation of space industry professionals at UC Santa Cruz.
To do this, we are developing a small satellite, known as a CubeSat. This satellite was selected as part of NASA’s CubeSat Launch Initiative, and will be deployed from the International Space Station in Q2, 2026.
Our student members have backgrounds in physics, software, mechanical design, and electrical engineering, and continue to broaden their skill sets with each new challenge. Our goal is to give UC Santa Cruz students a foundation for space-based engineering at UCSC. From these efforts, SlugSat is paving the way for an ongoing space program at UCSC and is providing students with access to an aerospace engineering project which is currently academically unavailable.