The CubeSat project at Vermont State University (formerly Vermont Technical College) is undergoing a transformation. I am retired from teaching and am no longer mentoring students in this project. Furthermore, there are no other faculty at VTSU who are inclined to continue in my role. Finally, student interest in the project (with one exception) had been waning for some time.
At the time of this writing, the CubeSat Laboratory website is still up and running. However, the server is physically housed on the VTSU campus, and without anyone to manage it, the IT department will likely want it to be shut down after I leave at the end of this year. I created a backup copy of the site off my personal website for safekeeping and to insure that the content will continue to be visible on the web for the foreseeable future. My backup copy of the site has already been updated, causing it to be slightly divergent from the original site, and it is now the best source of information about the project. Hopefully, a better long-term home for the site can be found in the next few weeks.
The GitHub organization for the CubeSat Laboratory is still technically active. It is not formally associated with VTSU, and can continue forward as an independent space for anyone interested in our projects or who wants to contribute to them via pull requests.
Do I expect to do any CubeSat-related development during my retirement? I don't know the answer to that at this time. I would like to. I was, and still am, excited about the possibilities of CubedOS, and I would like to see it reach a useful state. Although I don't expect to be organizing launches single-handedly, CubedOS has potential application as a general purpose embedded systems framework. It might be fun to work toward realizing that potential, even if only as a retirement project.
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