Teams from Georgia Tech's School of Aerospace Engineering took the top two spots in the 2009-2010 the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Foundation (AIAA) Undergraduate Team Space Design Competition. 

The first place team consisted of engineering students Mathew LeVine, Suyog Benegalrao, Danielle Hansen, Sydney Lewis, Gabriel Morocoima, and Stephen Rooks.  The second team was Travis O’Neal, Anthony Piplica, Andrew Punnoose, Subbiah Ramasamy, Amy Stevens, Ankit Tiwari and Carlee A. Bishop as the project advisor.  David A. Spencer was the faculty advisor for both teams.  They will receive $2,500 and $1,500 respectively from the AIAA. 

About the contest

The 2009–2010 contest required competing teams to design a space weather monitoring constellation of nanostats or cubesats to monitor the space weather environment around the second Lagrange point of the Earth–Sun system (L2), to provide environmental data for future space missions around the L2 region. For more information, contact Stephen Brock at stephenb@aiaa.org.