(From left) Engineering junior Forrest Rogers-Marcovitz; Michael A. Swartwout, Ph.D, assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering; alumnus Brian McDaniels (MSME ’06); and engineering junior Lane Haury prepare a demonstration of their nanosatellite duo March 23 in Cupples II Hall. The group was part of a team that created Akoya, a mother ship, and Bandit, a smaller satellite that docks on Akoya to recharge. On March 27, Swartwout and the students made the same presentation in Albuquerque, N.M., to the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and the U.S. Air Force to convince them to take the satellites on a future mission. In a close contest, the project took second out of 10 entries in the Nanosat-4 Competition; Cornell University came in first. The Bandit/Akoya project, which involved more than 100 students from various University schools, will be presented to the aerospace industry at the Small Satellite Conference in August.