Space Hardware Club at UAH

On March 3 UAH hosted Research Horizons, which showcases student research projects. This year Space Hardware had numerous projects showcased. During this 2 of our posters were on the podium! Read below for more information about each:

1st place: Carter Stevens with our Terminus project with their ELARA (Experimental Linked Array for Radio Astronomy) research project. This poster focuses on the development of a space-based radio rather than having a radio based on Earth. (Picture 1)

3rd place: Our CanSat Project displayed an explains their payload for the International CanSat competition. (Picture 4)

This last Tuesday, Feb. 24th, SHC (The Space Hardware Club) had the opportunity to present at the fifth annual UAH Engineering Showcase. We had 13+ projects presenting to UAH faculty, staff, students, community engineers and many more!

Thank you for hosting the event and giving our students this experience every year!

Last month SHC had the opportunity to partner with Challenger schools and bring some hardware to their Challenger Family STEM night! We were so excited to introduce young kids to the STEM world!

Our HAVOC (High Altitude Visual Orientation Control) Project had the awesome opportunity to work with James Clemons High School and their students who are interested in pursuing a STEM degree. HAVOC used their project to explain the engineering design process, project objectives, and introduce them to our club! Students even got to see the team prepare, fill, and launch one of our high altitude balloons. During this, they were introduced to each separate subsystem and how they are integrated for flight!

Come join SHC at our Christmas Movie night hosted in MSB100!

Dress in your Christmas attire, ugly sweaters, Christmas pajamas, or Santa hats!

We can’t wait to close out another successful semester for the club!

Do you love fall treats? Stop by our bake sale with a variety of goods! All proceeds will go to SHC’s student spaceflight program, entirely led, designed, and built by UAH students. The team is fundraising for lab refit supplies and travel money for students to see their payloads launch.

Congratulations to the LUMA team for winning Runner-Up Undergraduate Poster in the 2025 Von Braun Space Exploration Symposium’s Student Poster Contest, with their poster “Extended-Duration Satellite Testing via Altitude-Controlled High-Altitude Balloon”.

LUMA, short for “Long-range Universal Mission Administrator,” is a project within the Space Hardware Club’s BalloonSat Program that is developing a modular system for long-range command and control of balloon flights. The system’s capabilities can be used for longer mission durations, targeted landing locations, communications relays, and many other useful mission profiles.

Authors: Drew Early, Evan Champney, Nikki Allen, Riley Galatis, Lukas Hezel, Joseph Kloess, Andrew Donnell, Sam Whitlock
Technical Reviewers: Kaden Queener, Dr. Gang Wang
Presenters: Drew Early, Evan Champney, Nikki Allen, Riley Galatis

We had a great time at Observe the Moon Night at . Our members got to share our love for science with members of the community! We also got to meet and Professor S. Fuzz!

Come to the CGU Breezeway tomorrow 8/29 to get a sweet treat between classes!

SHC's Terminus project hit a major milestone on Friday with a successful vibration test of our sounding rocket payload! After 14 months of development, the payload is just two weeks from being flight-ready. The test confirmed the integrity of all mechanical structures and wiring-everything remained intact and fully operational post-test.

A big thank you to UAH's Reliability and Failure Analysis Lab, and especially Todd Jenkins, for hosting our team and running the testing!