The Knights Satellite Club designs, builds, and launches CubeSats and high-altitude payloads. Our projects involve numerous interdisciplinary skills and hands-on learning across Mechanical/Aerospace Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and RF Communications.

The Knights Satellite Club (KSC) is the University of Central Florida's student-led CubeSat program and a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. We design, build, and launch CubeSats and high-altitude payloads through interdisciplinary student teams.

Our current projects include T-Sat-2, the third mission in our rapid-iteration Tethered-Sat program; two satellite tracking ground stations developed in collaboration with ARC@UCF and the UCF Department of Physics; and our most ambitious undertaking yet — an Orbital CubeSat launching in Spring 2026. We also continue work on the KAOS (Knights Air Observation Satellite) program, our suborbital CubeSat demonstrator.

Previous missions include KAOS-1 (a 4U CubeSat that reached approximately 100,000 feet via weather balloon), T-Sat-0 and T-Sat-1 (balloon-based CubeSat testbeds that validated parachute deployment and burnwire release systems), and our founding project KnightSat-1, a TubeSat ADCS designed for the University Nanosatellite Program.

Each project involves hands-on learning across Material Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Mechanical/Aerospace Engineering, Computer Engineering, and Radio/Communications. Zero experience is required to join, the best time to get involved is now.