Design.Build.Fly.
UVA's student-run satellite team. We take spacecraft from requirements through design review, integration, and flight — and we are recruiting across every major.
Who we are
The University of Virginia CubeSat Team
CavSat is run start to finish by undergraduates. We design primary structures, lay out avionics, write flight firmware and ground station software, model descent and recovery, and hold the mass, power, and link budgets that tie it together.
Six subteams work under a systems lead who owns the requirements and the interfaces between them. The design is defended at preliminary and critical design review before anything is cleared to fly.
Start here
Have a look around
Two spacecraft, six subteams, and a review cycle that runs from September to launch.
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About the team
How six subteams, a requirements flow-down, and a review cycle fit together.
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Our projects
CanSat, the competition we fly every summer, and the CavSat 3U CubeSat.
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The team
Officers, subteam leads, and the faculty advisors who review our work.
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Photo gallery
Subsystem bring-up, fit checks, and hardware coming together on the bench.
Get involved
Come build a satellite.
Fill out the interest form, then join the Discord — that is where subteam channels, meeting times, and the design discussions live.
Open to all majors, all schools, and all years.