CubeSats for Climate Change Monitoring (C3M): Demonstrating Interferometric IR Payloads Scalable to Constellations

CubeSats for Climate Change Monitoring (C3M): Demonstrating Interferometric IR Payloads Scalable to Constellations

Salt Palace Convention Center, Salt Lake City, UT

• Project Objective: Develop a compact, low-power IR spectrometer for a modular 1U CubeSat.
• Mission Motivation: Enable timely monitoring of climate hazards, wildfires, volcanic activity, and greenhouse gases.
• Core Demonstration: Validated end-to-end integration and operation of a thermal IR payload on the Artemis CubeSat Kit.
• Constellation Vision: Establish a scalable, low-cost architecture for high-revisit climate monitoring.