Enhancing Undergraduate Education in Aerospace Engineering and Planetary Sciences at MIT through the Development of a Cubesat Mission

CubeSats are a class of nanosatellites that conform to a standardized 10 cm x 10 cm x 10 cm, 1 kg form factor. This miniaturization, along with a standardized deployment device for launch vehicles, allows CubeSats to be launched at low cost by sharing the trip to orbit with other spacecraft. Part of...

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Main Authors: Smith, Matthew William, Seager, Sara, Miller, David W
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: SPIE 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/74168
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6892-6948
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6099-0614