The University Nanosat Program: an adaptable, responsive and realistic capability demonstration vehicle

Hunyadi, G.; Ganley, Jeff; Peffer, Andrew; Kumashiro, Mark

doi:10.1109/aero.2004.1368091

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“…Developed initially by Bob Twiggs and Jordi Puig-Suari as a tool to facilitate aerospace engineering education [28], CubeSats are now widely used by education [29,30] as well as being developed for science [31][32][33][34], government [35], military [36,37] and commercial [38,39] purposes. Their development is being aided [40] by the availability of free-to-developer launch services from the U.S. Air Force [41], NASA [42] and the ESA [43]. Lower-cost commercial launches are also on the horizon [44,45].…”

Section: Small Spacecraft Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Evaluation of the Educational Impact of Participation Time in a Small Spacecraft Development Program

Straub

Whalen

2014

Education Sciences

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The value of the duration of participation in a small spacecraft program has not previously been sufficiently characterized. This work seeks to determine whether most relevant benefits are received by participants quickly (suggesting that participant education would be best achieved by shorter duration exposure to multiple domains) or accrues over time (suggesting that prolonged work on a single project would be most beneficial). The experiences of the student participants in the OpenOrbiter Small Spacecraft Development Initiative at the University of North Dakota are analyzed in an attempt to answer this question. To this end, correlation between the duration of program participation and the level of benefit received (across five categories) is assessed herein.

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Section: Small Spacecraft Developmentmentioning

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Evaluation of the Educational Impact of Participation Time in a Small Spacecraft Development Program

Straub

Whalen

2014

Education Sciences

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“…Initiative [7] has generated larger spacecraft (similar to the size and mass to spacecraft facilitated in the United States by the Air Force's University NanoSat Program [8]). The European Student Earth Orbiter, for example, is a 45 kg spacecraft with dimensions of approximately 30 cm × 30 cm × 100 cm [9].…”

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Student Expectations from Participating in a Small Spacecraft Development Program

Straub

Whalen

2013

Aerospace

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Abstract:The number of small spacecraft development programs in the United States and worldwide have increased significantly over the course of the last 10 years. This paper analyzes reasons for the growth in these programs by assessing what student participants hope to gain from their participation. Participants in the OpenOrbiter Small Spacecraft Development Initiative at the University of North Dakota were surveyed at the beginning of an academic year to determine why they were planning to participate in the program again or join and participate for the first time. This paper presents the results of this survey.

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“…ver the past decade, many universities have successfully launched small satellites and are continuously participating in various university small satellite programs 1,2 . The Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) is one school that is actively involved with small satellite missions.…”

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Reference Ground Station Design for University Satellite Missions with Varying Communication Requirements

Choi

Stevenson

Lightsey

2017

55th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting

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The Georgia Institute of Technology will support five small satellite missions within a two year frame (2017 to 2019). Each satellite has different communication requirements because the mission requirements and hardware components are different for every mission. This paper discusses a common ground station architecture which will support every small satellite mission from Georgia Tech. Georgia Tech will use a network of three different ground stations, utilizing commercial off the shelf (COTS) operations software, software defined radios (SDR), and open source tracking software. This paper describes the Georgia Tech ground station and how challenges were addressed to meet the multi-mission communication requirements.

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The University Nanosat Program: an adaptable, responsive and realistic capability demonstration vehicle

Cited by 19 publications

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Evaluation of the Educational Impact of Participation Time in a Small Spacecraft Development Program

Evaluation of the Educational Impact of Participation Time in a Small Spacecraft Development Program

Student Expectations from Participating in a Small Spacecraft Development Program

Reference Ground Station Design for University Satellite Missions with Varying Communication Requirements

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