Purdue Space Program Satellites

Boiler Bus is envisioned to be a series of student-friendly, low-cost, and reliable universal satellite buses, with ground services, capable of hosting generic payloads for commercial, academic and government partners. As a collegiate team, PSP Satellites achieves lower satellite bus costs by avoiding the profit motives and standard expenses typical of industry alternatives, but maintains a level of reliability by using flight proven hardware and architectures. Our first Platform (3U Bus) is projected to cost less than 30% of performance comparable commercial solutions! In addition, the Boiler Bus Program is designed to benefit the student experience and prepare them for the space industry.

Developing the Boiler Bus Program and my work on PSP Satellites defined my experience at Purdue. I was able to learn and become passionate about space system engineering and program lifecycles. I was able to network and conduct research about how the current space industry operates and how small satellite bus as a service companies operate. I also got to learn about all spacecraft subsystems as I was responsible for filling all holes in work on our team or filling in for any members missing.

For more in-depth information on the Boiler Bus Program, the PSP Satellite team, and our technical work checkout the resources linked below, the Small Satellite paper I wrote on the program, or ask me!