MXL

Michigan eXploration Laboratory

MXL - A Small Lab Making Big Impacts

MXL is a lab consisting of ~20 students across undergrad and graduate programs rooted in small vehicle space exploration and technology development. MXL designed and built the first NSF and NASA sponsored CubeSats, and has flown 8 missions to orbit, with 3 active spacecraft in LEO right now. MXL flies technology to high altitude for research experiments on weather balloons, flies robust CubeSats for Low Earth Orbit research experiments, and even has even flown hardware to Mars on the MARCO mission. Come check out our talk to see what we've been up to in the past year.

Justin Schachter
Research Assistant

Justin Schachter is an MEng Space Systems student (AERO '20), a 4-year veteran MXLer, and is involved with most of MXL's research projects and ongoing space missions. He is also a part-time engineer at NASA JPL on an under-ice vehicle R&D program and the Mars 2020 rover.

Paul Knudsen
Research Assistant

Paul Knudsen is UM Aerospace Engineering Master's student specializing in spacecraft and control systems. He works in Michigan eXploration Laboratory as the E-TBEx mission operations lead. He is very much looking forward to doing GNC at General Atomics this summer!