Welcome

A satellite is a promise to keep working where nobody can reach it. We teach students to make that promise carefully — and to plan, from the first sketch, how the satellite will leave orbit when it is done.

ORBIT Lab sits in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at Saebyeol University (fictional). We work where hardware and orbital mechanics meet: a 3U CubeSat we built and still operate, a campus telescope that follows fragments no catalogue lists, and the arithmetic that decides how many satellites a single ground station can look after.

Most of what we publish starts as a question from operations. Why did SB-1 run warm on one pass a week? Why did a fragment arrive forty seconds late? The answers become papers, and the tools become course material — the orbit calculator on this site began as a homework sheet.

Prof. Haneul Cho, principal investigator (fictional)