Session
Technical Session VIIIB: Cubesat Missions
Abstract
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 launches for three satellites in one launcher tube. The first mission for this launcher will be to fly six tubes to launch as many as 24 CubeSats in May 2002 on a Kosmotras, Dnepr ELV from Bikinour, Ukraine. Stanford and Cal Poly are providing active technical support for the CubeSat developers, which are mostly universities. Once the CubeSats have been developed by the universities and other customers, they will be sent to Cal Poly for final testing, insertion into the launcher then shipped to One Stop Satellite Solutions in Ogden, Utah where they will be mounted on the OSSS Multiple Payload Adapter, then sent to Russia and integrated onto the Dnepr.
CubeSat: The Development and Launch Support Infrastructure for Eighteen Different Satellite Customers on One Launch
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 launches for three satellites in one launcher tube. The first mission for this launcher will be to fly six tubes to launch as many as 24 CubeSats in May 2002 on a Kosmotras, Dnepr ELV from Bikinour, Ukraine. Stanford and Cal Poly are providing active technical support for the CubeSat developers, which are mostly universities. Once the CubeSats have been developed by the universities and other customers, they will be sent to Cal Poly for final testing, insertion into the launcher then shipped to One Stop Satellite Solutions in Ogden, Utah where they will be mounted on the OSSS Multiple Payload Adapter, then sent to Russia and integrated onto the Dnepr.
