Initially, a team of students at Cornell University developed a tiny spacecraft called ChipSat in an attempt to drastically cut down the costs of spaceflight and exploration in Low Earth Orbit. The LunaSats expands on the ideas of ChipSat with the goal to reach lunar exploration and investigation. 

Small, yet powerful LunaSats can collect temperature, magnetic field, acceleration, capacitance, and inertial measurements on the harsh environment of the lunar surface for six lunar hours, or approximately 7 Earth days. With that much power and time, and dependent on each team's local and distributed science missions, even more data can be collected! 

All selected teams involved with GLEE will receive a base, non-lunar ready version of the LunaSat, provided  by the GLEE Team. Teams will be able to test and code those LunaSats as a learning process of our non-lunar ready satellites. 

GLEE's mission is to bring STEM education opportunities to anyone interested in learning. We have developed hands-on modules to teach teams about sensors, power management, radio frequency communication, and much more. We also recently launched the LEAP Modules.  Educational modules designed to teach teams about the beginnings of a space mission, from idea formation to writing a proposal. To make this information accessible to everyone, we created material to appeal to many levels of experience. 

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