NASA and Cube-sats

NASA’s CubeSat Launch initiative (CSLI) provides opportunities for small satellite payloads to fly on rockets planned for upcoming launches. These CubeSats are flown as auxiliary payloads on previously planned missions.

CubeSats are a class of research spacecraft called nanosatellites. The cube-shaped satellites are approximately four inches long, have a volume of about one quart and weigh about 3 pounds. A lecture on the program will be held this afternnon in MLC room 148 at 3:30 pm, "NASA Ames CubeSat Missions:  A Short History of Nearly Everything and a Glimpse of the Future": 

NASA Ames Research Center has been a leading NASA advocate for CubeSat for a number of years, conducting a spectrum of missions including astrobiology (Pharma-Sat) to innovative low cost technology demonstrations, such as PhoneSat. Through the successful flights of dozens of these nanonsatellites from Ames, many lessons have been learned, discoveries made, technologies demonstrated and paradigms shifted. This presentation will cover a “short history of nearly everything” to do with Ames CubeSats and how to get involved. 

As we get ready to blast off into another great football weekend (sorry), what better way to spend Friday afternoon than talking about nano-investigations in space? Exactly. The event features Jasper Wolfe, Robert Carlino and Roger Hunter of the Ames Research Center. Hunter, project manager of the Kepler mission and a great friend of Franklin College, is an enthusiastic ambassadorand advocate for science education and always treat to have on campus. Come this afternoon. Look up.

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