OUR MISSION

PSAS is an open source student group dedicated to making "better students" through interdisciplinary, team-based, hands-on aerospace projects.

PSAS has a "vision statement" of putting a 1 kg nanosatellite into orbit by ourselves. That's a great vision but a ridiculous goal for a university group (anyone got a million bucks they want to donate?!). But that helps shape what we work on! We have three strategic projects:

OPEN SOURCE EVERYTHING

Everything we do is posted to a repository on Github with "copyleft" licenses. This means that anyone may use our designs, but if they distribute designs based on our designs, they have to open source their designs, too. This keeps all of our hard work out there in the open to benefit you, and, hopefully, we'll even get some improvements back!!

We generally use three types of copyleft licenses: