Session
Poster Session III
Event Website
https://www.smallsat.org/index
Abstract
The Far Horizons space program at the Adler Planetarium is designing, building, and will operate NITESat (Night Imaging and Tracking Experiment Satellite), a 2U CubeSat mission supported by a robust education and public outreach effort. The primary science mission of NITESat is to capture high-resolution, three-color, nighttime imagery of the Midwestern United States to quantify and characterize the nature and intensity of light pollution across the region. The motto of the Adler Planetarium is “Join Us In Exploring Space,” and the NITESat mission firmly embraces this concept with students, interns, and volunteers embedded in every stage of the design, build and outreach process. This is an overview of the NITESat mission including the opportunities and challenges of engaging participants and the public in an authentic scientific research CubeSat program.
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NITESat: A People-Powered Science Mission
The Far Horizons space program at the Adler Planetarium is designing, building, and will operate NITESat (Night Imaging and Tracking Experiment Satellite), a 2U CubeSat mission supported by a robust education and public outreach effort. The primary science mission of NITESat is to capture high-resolution, three-color, nighttime imagery of the Midwestern United States to quantify and characterize the nature and intensity of light pollution across the region. The motto of the Adler Planetarium is “Join Us In Exploring Space,” and the NITESat mission firmly embraces this concept with students, interns, and volunteers embedded in every stage of the design, build and outreach process. This is an overview of the NITESat mission including the opportunities and challenges of engaging participants and the public in an authentic scientific research CubeSat program.
https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/smallsat/2016/Poster3/8
