Introductions to CubeSat Course

International Journal of Aerospace Engineering, 2019

Satellite technologies are an essential component in the study of outer space, as well as for many other tasks. Along with serious big-machines, there are small, so-called nanosatellites. On one of them is being discussed in this article about nanosatellite standard CubeSat.

California Polytechnic State University, in coordination with Stanford University, has developed the CubeSat standard to provide inexpensive and timely access to space for small payloads. These picosatellites, built mostly by universities, are 10 centimeter cubes with a mass of 1 kilogram. Of the 40 or so participating universities and private firms, more than 60% of CubeSat developers reside in the United States. Our goal is to make launching these satellites easy and cost effective by coordinating launches and providing a reliable deployment system. This paper will discuss Cal Poly's role in the CubeSat program, and the characteristics of the project which create practical, reliable, and costeffective launch opportunities.

Proc. 15th Annual AIAA/USU …, 2001

Stanford University and California Polytechnic State University have combined efforts to develop a means of launching small picosatellites called CubeSat. The CubeSat is a 10cm cube weighting 1 kg or less. The launching system developed will provide ...

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Over a decade ago, after several years of teaching my Stanford University students different engineering and systems aspects of larger microsat type spacecraft, I developed the first 10-cm cube satellite, which Jordi Puig-Suari at California Polytechnic State University-San ...

AIAA SPACE 2008 Conference & Exposition, 2008

The development of the CubeSat standard, a picosatellite standard, has become a tool that encourages engineering collaboration, trains students with real-world satellite experience, and provides technology advancement in the aerospace industry. The Poly-Picosatellite Orbital Deployer (P-POD), in conjuction with the CubeSat standard, plays a key role in providing access to space for CubeSats. Developing satellites at the CubeSat level highlight the increasing opportunities for access to space while yielding quicker development times.

AIAA SPACE 2009 Conference & Exposition, 2009

The last year has seen an explosion of interest in designing, building, and flying CubeSatclass objects in space. Though there are many unanswered questions surrounding the military usefulness of this new class of space hardware, a few key trends are developing in testing the prototypes for the future military systems. An interface standard is emerging that will allow rapid build and integration of many CubeSats at one time into a multiple launcher configuration. Additionally, focal points to bring the community together into an organized team and do the requisite systems engineering to ensure all components can be flown in a compatible CONOP are emerging. If all goes well in integration of these components, the USAF will gain invaluable analytic and test data to establish the utility and price point appropriate for these small entities. This paper describes the trends in the interface standards and discusses the consolidation of efforts across the CubeSat community over the last year.

IEEE Microwave Magazine, 2016

T he space race has played a significant role in the history of the last half century, and satellites are among the most important parts of space race and technology. More than 6,000 artificial satellites have been deployed since the first, Sputnik, in 1957; some 1,000 are still in operation [1]. When most people not involved in satellite technologies see or hear the word "satellite," they think of satellites weighing several tons. However, developing material, rocket, and mechanical and electrical technologies are rapidly changing the world of artificial satellites.

The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) has been involved in two previous CubeSat projects (nCube-1 and -2). The current CubeSat project, NTNU Test Satellite (NUTS), is part of the national student satellite program in Norway, and our project is meant to be a genuine student satellite project. Initially the plan was to base all the work, except project management, on students master's thesis. One of the major experiences from the nCube-projects was that such a complex project hardly could be handled by students only. However, even if the project manager resides in the project for a long time, the work force is ever changing. Due to the nature of the ed-ucation program at NTNU, students usually spend a maximum of 9 months as a project member. In this period, they need to understand the complexity of the project as a whole and their own part in the system as responsible for a subsystem or part of such. Further they need to understand and evaluate previous works, ...

2020

The University of Colorado Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering has over a decade of success in designing, building, and operating student led CubeSat missions. The experience and lessons learned from building and operating the CSSWE, MinXSS-1, MinXSS-2, and QB50-Challenger missions have helped grow a knowledge base on the most effective and efficient ways to manage some of the “tall poles” when it comes to student run CubeSat missions. Among these “tall poles” we have seen student turnover, software, and documentation become some of the hardest to knockdown and we present our strategies for doing so. We use the MAXWELL mission (expected to launch in 2021) as a road-map to detail the methodology we have built over the last decade to ensure the greatest chance of mission success. INTRODUCTION CubeSats at the University of Colorado The University of Colorado Smead Aerospace graduate program has launched and operated four successful missions to date: CSSWE [1] [2], MinXSS-1 [3], M...