Welcome to the U of S Space Design Team’s website! Have a look around.

President's Message We've completed the design of the climber and the power beaming station. We are now ordering, machining, and assembling all the parts for each component. Although it proved to be very challenging to design for the new requirements this year (1km climb height, 5m/s climb speed), we feel that once again we have a very strong system that will excel in the competition. The tracking has been under testing for the past few weeks and it looks very promising. The climber itself is almost entirely finished, and we've discovered several breakthroughs in the electrical/motor/photovoltaic department that will really increase our efficiency. All teams are working hard to shoot for a full working system by the end of August. We'd really like to be able to perform a Public Demo for the University community and our sponsors at the beginning of the school year, in recognition for all of their support. We are still looking for funding to help pay for the extra equipment we need to meet the 2008 challenge (new laser modules and optics, new photovoltaic cells, etc). We encourage anyone interested in supporting the Team and the University to please contact us no matter what contribution they can make. Patrick Allen

	The USST will be competing in
USST First Place Climb   Elevator 2010 Competition, Oct 22 2007

If you are interested in following our progress throughout this coming competition and into the future, please stay tuned. We will be periodically updating this site with current news and status.

We would also like to thank our generous sponsors and contributors for all of their support, without which we would not be here today.

2007 SPONSORS/SUPPORTERS:  Title Sponsors: The Seaman Brothers        Platinum Sponsors: Gerald Maier      Gold Sponsors:  Silver Sponsors: Brett Wilson Rob Zakresky N. Murray Edwards Ruszkowski Enterprises       Lakeland   U of S Department of Mechanical Engineering IEEE Canadian Foundation      Bronze Sponsors: Trent McConaghy            Northtown Motors Ltd.       AJ Machine & Manufacturing      Supporters:             ECC Engineering Computer Centre Engineering Shops     Ted Koskie           The Nattresses TL Consulting