CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY NORTHRIDGE

DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING

JAMES FLYNN

INSTRUCTOR

   
 

FALL 2021

ECE 492/493

Senior Design Guidelines

 

 

 

CSUN GRADS PART OF MARS 2020 TEAM

Perseverance

NASA Illustration

With the successful launch of the Mars 2020 Mission, the Perseverance rover and helicopter are on their way for a February 2021 landing on Mars. The mission will search for signs of ancient life on the red planet.

The team to design, build and fly the mission, includes several CSUN grads, many of whom worked on CSUNSat1, the 2017 mission which launched CSUN's first satellite. CSUNSat1 successfully completed its joint mission with JPL in 2018 and deorbited as planned in 2019.

70 students, led by Dr. Sharlene Katz, designed and built CSUNSat1 over the course of four years and managed the on orbit mission.