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Beginning in the 1960s, satellite instruments have measured Earth's reflected broadband shortwave radiation and emitted ...
The winners are in for the GrabCad CubeSat Challenge, which asked designers to rethink the way that CubeSats are built. These tiny 10 cm square satellites are the hot thing in orbit, and the compet… ...
Our team was a randomly selected group of nine aerospace engineering seniors and one electrical engineering senior at CU Boulder. We named our team REPTAR (Recoverable ProTection After Re-entry). The ...
Want to build your own CubeSat but have been put off by the price? There may be a solution in the works — [RG Sat] has challenged himself to design and build one for less than $1,000. (Video ...
Another scientist who worked on a CubeSat was NASA Engineer Mimi Aung, who headed up the team that just flew the first helicopter on Mars. She worked on one in college 30 years ago - not bad company.
Description: CubeSat Integrated Star Tracker’s (CubIST) purpose is to design, build, and test a prototype star tracker available to CU Boulder for future development.CubIST will take images of stars ...
From 1957 when the first human-made satellite, Sputnik-1, was launched until 1999 when Twiggs proposed CubeSat, satellites came in all shapes and sizes. And almost all satellites were designed ...