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0 The Aerospace Corporation El Segundo, CA, 90245-4609 IOCPSMission to demonstrate new technologies for proximity operations and communications for CubeSats and other spacecraft. Small-satellite mission operations requiring high downlink data rates can benefit from the use of an asymmetric communication system incorporating a laser downlink in the 1-to-10-megabit/s range and a slower RF uplink. Close proximity operations for all spacecraft would benefit from inexpensive radar units for ranging, optical flow sensors for cross-track motion detection, variable ballistic coefficient for initial orbit modification, and cold gas thrusters for fine orbit control. Payload: Laser transmitter; Radar sensor; Optical flow sensorScience/Technology Demonstration: Navigation and Control - Close proximity operationsFocus Areas: Technology Demonstration, Selected: 2013POC: Dr. Siegfried W. Janson 34.139159 -118.130836 0
1 The Aerospace Corporation El Segundo, CA, 90245 LMPC CubeSatMission to improve infrared imagers for space applications by demonstrating a highly sensitive 2x8 HgCdTe electron Avalanche Photo Diode (e-APD) array, that has high quantum efficiency and single-qualified photon-level response at IR wavelengths from 1 to 4 microns. Demonstrate space-qualified photon-level counting detector at > 1-micron wavelength for long-term space operation. Payload: Linear mode photon counter (LMPC)Science/Technology Demonstration: Photon sensitive Infrared Detector ArrayFocus Areas: Technology Demonstration, Selected: 2014POC: Dr. Renny Fields 34.140012 -118.133926 0
2 AMSAT, Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation Silver Springs, MD, 20910 FOX-1Mission to provide host a two-way FM communications transponder and an experiment payload allowing students to relay messages from Earth to space and back to other students somewhere on the planet requiring only a simple walkie-talkie style radio combined with a small hand-held antenna.Payload: 2-way FM communications transponder; 3-axis, micro-electro-mechanical gyroscope, altitude determination experimentScience/Technology Demonstration: Education Focus Areas: EducationSelected: 2012POC: Tony Monteiro 38.990102 -77.023753 0
3 Arizona State University Tempe, AZ, 85287-6004AOSATAsteroid Origins Satellite (AOSAT) is a 3U CubeSat science laboratory that will be the world’s first CubeSat centrifuge. It will enable a unique set of science and technology experiments to be performed on a CubeSat to answer fundamental questions of how the solar system formed and understand the surface dynamics of asteroids and comets. The platform will be a test bed for new technologies to land, explore and utilize the resources on asteroids. It will perform two experiments: primary accretion research, studying how particles aggregate to form large bodies including asteroids, planets and stars, and; asteroid regolith research, building a ‘patch of regolith’ out of representative material and spinning it up inside a centrifuge.Payload: Stereo Camera; Piezolectric Vibrator; Nitrogen Release; Nitrogen Bead Deployer; Accretion SeederScience/Technology Demonstration: Asteroids; Microgravity geophysicsFocus Areas: Scientific Research, Technology DemonstrationSelected: 2015POC: Dr. Jekan Thangavelautham 33.423705 -111.9283676 0
4 Auburn University Auburn University, AL, 36849 AubieSat-1The first of several missions with the goal of achieving formation-flying CubeSats for collecting space weather data. Its mission is to measure fluctuations in Earth’s magnetic field in low-Earth orbit using magnetometers. Payload: 3-axis magnetometerScience/Technology Demonstration: Space Weather Focus Areas: Technology Demonstration, Scientific Research Selected: 2010POC: J-M Wersinger 32.600309 -85.487061 0
5 Boston University Boston, MA, 02215 ANDESITEMission to demontrate a space-based wireless sensor network (SB-WSN) utilizing a set of interacting miniautre satellites, called Sensor Nodes, for high-resolution sensing of space and atmospheric environments.Payload: 12-node sensor network; 1 U network managerScience/Technology Demonstration: Distributed sensing in hazardous environments - Focus Areas: Technology Demonstration, Scientific Research Selected: 2014POC: Dr. Ted Fritz 42.350425 -71.107206 0
6 Brown University Providence, RI, 02912 EQUiSatMission is to lower the barriers of entry to the aerospace industry byincreasing the accessibility of satellite design by developing Open source technical documentation allowing for CubeSat design for under $4,000. Additionally, through an optical beacon visible to people on Earth with the naked eye and a radio accessible to Amateur Radio enthusiasts, people of all ages will be able to interact with the CubeSat.Payload: High-power LED array serving as an optical beaconFocus Areas: Education, Technology Demonstration Selected: 2014POC: Rick Fleeter 41.826659 -71.402464 0
7 California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo, CA, 93407 CP-5Mission is to test a deployable spacecraft de-orbiting a thin-film mechanism consisting of a miniature solar sail. After the sail deploys, observations will be made from the ground to detect any altitude or velocity degradation of the spacecraft. Payload: Solar SailScience/Technology Demonstration: In-Space Propulsion - Deployable solar sailFocus Areas: Technology Demonstration, Education Selected: 2010POC: Dr Jordi Puig-Suari 35.301029 -120.659194 0
8 California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo, CA, 93407 EXOCUBEMission to provide the first in-situ density measurements of all significant neutral and ionized species above F2 ionospheric peak on a global scale. The measurements will be the first in-situ global neutral density data since the Dynamics Explorer 2. It will carry a mass spectrometer sensor suite, EXOS, in to low Earth orbit (LEO) to measure neutral and ionized species in the exosphere and thermosphere. Payload: Neutral Static Energy Angle Analyzer, Ion Static Energy Analyzer, Total Ion MonitorScience/Technology Demonstration: Space WeatherFocus Areas: Scientific Research, Education Selected: 2012POC: Dr. Jordi Puig-Suari 35.301494 -120.659705 0
9 California State University, Northridge Northridge, CA, 91330-8346CSUNSat1The primary mission of CSUNSat1 is to space test an innovative low temperature capable energy storage system developed by JPL, raising its TRL level to 7 from 4-5. The success of this energy storage system will enable future missions, especially those in deep space to do more science while requiring less energy, mass and volume.Payload: Low-temperature capable, Li-ion battery/super capacitor hybrid power systemScience/Technology Demonstration: Space Power; Energy StorageFocus Areas: Technology Demonstration, EducationSelected: 2015POC: Dr. Sharlene Katz 34.240047 -118.5304642 0
10 Capitol Technology University Laurel, MD, 20708-9758CACTUS-1Capitol Technology UniversityCACTUS-1 is a technological demonstration of a cost-saving communications and commanding innovation that will enable scientific data gathering and contribute risk parameterization and mitigation services to aid both academic and industry teams in future missions. The Command-via-Internet (CvI) payload lowers investment in communications and ground systems technology in an unprecedented way by licensing conventional internet satellite providers for Low Earth Orbit (LEO) use. The aerogel-based Particle Capture and Measurement (PCaM) instrument is the first CubeSat-based orbital debris detector to be flown in LEO.Payload: Command-via-Internet (CvI) payload; aerogel-based Particle Capture and Measurement (PCaM) instrumentScience/Technology Demonstration: Communications; Orbital DebrisFocus Areas: Technology DemonstrationSelected: 2015POC: Dr. Alex “Sandy” Antunes 39.0461859 -76.8512964 0
11 Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO, 80523-1373TEMPEST-DThe Temporal Experiment for Storms and Tropical Systems ? Demonstrator (TEMPEST-D) provides risk mitigation for the TEMPEST mission that will provide the first temporal observations of cloud and precipitation processes on a global scale. These observations are important to understand the linkages in and between Earth’s water and energy balance, as well as to improve our understanding of cloud model microphysical processes that are vital to climate change prediction. TEMPEST-D consists of two of the proposed TEMPEST 6U CubeSats, launched in tandem to raise the technology readiness level of the system to TRL 9 and to demonstrate its measurement capabilities.Payload: JPL RACE radiometer; High-frequency Airborne Microwave and Millimeter-wave Radiometer (HAMMR) IIP-10 radiometerScience/Technology Demonstration: Earth ScienceFocus Areas: Technology Demonstration, Scientific ResearchSelected: 2015POC: Steven Reising 40.5743264 -105.1034546 0
12 Cornell University Ithaca, NY, 14853 KickSatTechnology demonstration mission designed to demonstrate the deployment and operation of 200 prototype Sprite “ChipSats” (femtosatellites) developed at Cornell University. ChipSats like the Sprite represent a disruptive new space technology that could enable new kinds of science and exploration missions, as well as dramatically lower the cost of access to space. Funded through crowdsourcing. The Sprite is a tiny spacecraft that includes power, sensor, and communication systems on a printed circuit board measuring 3.2 by 3.2 cm with a thickness of a few millimeters and a mass of a few grams. It is intended as a general-purpose sensor platform for microDelectroDmechanical (MEMS) or other chip-scale sensors with the ability to downlink data to ground stations from low Earth orbit (LEO).Payload: 104 Sprites (tiny spacecraft that includes power, sensor, and communication systems on a printed circuit board measuring 3.5 by 3.5 cm with a thickness of 2.5 mm and a mass of about 5 grams)Science/Technology Demonstration: Femtosatellites Focus Areas: Technology DemonstrationSelected: 2012POC: Zachary Manchester 42.453933 -76.484353 0
13 Cornell University Ithaca, NY, 14853-7501KickSat-2KickSat-2 is a CubeSat technology demonstration mission designed to demonstrate the deployment and operation of prototype Sprite “ChipSats” (femtosatellites). The Sprite is a tiny spacecraft that includes power, sensor, and communication systems on a printed circuit board measuring 3.5 by 3.5 cm with a thickness of a few millimeters and a mass of a few grams. ChipSats like the Sprite represent a disruptive new space technology that could enable new kinds of science and exploration missions, as well as dramatically lower the cost of access to space. Sprites have been developed and tested to Technology Readiness Level (TRL) 5-6 and an orbital demonstration will advance the Sprite to at least TRL 7.Payload: ChipSatsScience/Technology Demonstration: ChipSats (femtosatellites)Focus Areas: Technology DemonstrationSelected: 2015POC: Zachary Manchester 42.4544945 -76.4804649 0
14 The Discovery Museum and Planetarium Bridgeport, CT, 06604 DISCOSAT-1Educational mission designed to engage and educate K-12 students in the Bridgeport, CT Public School System through a Museum partnership with Discovery Magnet School. The main science goal is to help characterize the orbital debris field from orbit through an innovative aerogel capture and stereographic camera system. Payload: Aerogel debris capture blockScience/Technology Demonstration: Orbital debris - In-space capture of orbital debrisFocus Areas: Education, Scientific Research Selected: 2013POC: David Mestre 41.21537 -73.233662 0
15 Drexel University Philadelphia, PA, 19104 DragonSat-1DragonSat-1’s primary mission is education of undergraduate and graduate students by providing a hands-on experience in space system development. The secondary focus is to address two scientific objectives: observe the radiation dissipation intensity during solar events by studying digital photography of auroras and demonstrate a gravity-gradient boom deployment mechanism.Payload: Digital camera to observe the radiation dissipation intensity during solar events (aurora), Deployable gravity-gradient boomScience/Technology Demonstration: Space Weather - HeliophysicsFocus Areas: Education, Scientific Research Selected: 2011POC: Dr. Jin S. Kang 39.960431 -75.191765 0
16 Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Prescott, AZ, 86301 EagleSatEducational mission to bring together all engineering disciplines, as well as blending together the business majors to mimic a small business environment to the greatest extent possible to design and build an exploratory CubeSat mission that will test various types of memory for bit flipping due to solar radiation while in low Earth orbit. Payload: RAM; Solid state radiation detector; a crystal video receiver; GPS unitScience/Technology Demonstration: Radiation testing - Radiation degradation testingFocus Areas: Education, Scientific Research Selected: 2013POC: Brandon M. Wagner 34.616575 -112.450261 0
17 Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Daytona Beach, FL, 32114 ARAPAIMAMission to demonstrate a low-cost risk nano-satellite that autonomously navigates and maneuvers in close proxmity to a resident space object (RSO) to perform visual, IR, and 3D imagery of the RSO, without any catalogued cmparison in regard to shape and attitude state, with suffficient accuracy to then autonomously plan rendezvous and docking maneuvers with the RSO.Payload: FLIR MLR-2K laser range finder with a 2000 meter capability; GA 640C-15A SWIR infrared (IR) camera; mono chrome cameraScience/Technology Demonstration: Orbital Debris - Focus Areas: Technology Demonstration, Selected: 2014POC: Dr. Bogdan Udrea 29.189915 -81.048138 0
18 Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology Pasadena, CA, 91109-8099 LMRST-SatMission to provide a calibration source in Earth orbit to provide an order-of-magnitude improvement in X-Band deep space navigation solutions. Consists of a prototype X-Band LMRST and support bus electronics for purposes of calibrating the DSN X-Band navigation equipment. Current calibration methods are performed using sources in deep space that are limited by interplanetary media. Ground based calibrations are limited by being in the near-field, too close to the ground, or expensive to replicate if airborne. Payload: X-band Low Mass Radio Science Transponder (LMRST)Science/Technology Demonstration: Navigation and Control - X-Band deep space navigation solutionsFocus Areas: Technology DemonstrationSelected: 2011POC: Courtney B. Duncan 34.201865 -118.172379 0
19 Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology Pasadena, CA, 91109-8099 IPEXMission to validate various Intelligent Payload Module (IPM) technologies including autonomous onboard instrument processing, downlink operations, and automated ground operations. IPM capability is currently baselined for the HyspIRI Decadal Survey mission. HyspIRI will provide the first global measurements of land and shallow aquatic habitats at 60m resolution, and deep oceans at 1km resolution.Payload: Intelligent Payload Module (High data rate imaging instrument, SpaceCube mini onboard processor)Science/Technology Demonstration: Earth ScienceFocus Areas: Technology Demonstration, Scientific Research Selected: 2011POC: Dr. Steve Chien 34.203142 -118.170147 0
20 Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology Pasadena, CA, 91109 RACEMission to measure liquid water path (LWP) and precipitable water vapor (PWV) with radiometric performance comparable to current spaceborne insturments. Will consist of a microwave radiometer developed at JPL observing the 183 GHz water vapor line over 4 spectral bands. Utilizing physically smaller and significantly cheaper spacecraft to both distribute risk and improve temporal revisit time of Earth Science measurements.Payload: 183 GHz Indium Phosphide (InP) MMIC radiometerScience/Technology Demonstration: Earth Science Focus Areas: Scientific Research, Technology Demonstration Selected: 2012POC: Dr. Tony Freeman 34.199877 -118.172979 0
21 Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology Pasadena, CA, 91109-8099 GRIFEXMission to develop an optical-detector instrument payload consisting of a camera/lens system interfaced to a high performance ROIC focal plane array (FPA). The GEO-CAPE ROIC/FPA provides unprecedented frame rates, up to 16 kHz, and is necessary for future imaging interferometry instruments and missions such as the Panchromatic Fourier Transform Imaging Spectrometer (PanFTS) planned for the GEO-CAPE mission concept.Payload: Geostationary Coastal and Air Pollution Events (GEO-CAPE) area array detectorScience/Technology Demonstration: Earth ScienceFocus Areas: Technology Demonstration, Education Selected: 2012POC: Dr. David M. Rider 34.198244 -118.171692 0
22 Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology Pasadena, CA, 91109 CHIRPMission to provide data on the ionosphere relevant to the development of a space-based charged particle astronomical observatory. It will measure ionospheric dispersion of wide band pulses.Payload: Deployable log-periodic dipole antenna (LPDA); Pulsar system to transmit Very High Frequency (VHF) pulsesScience/Technology Demonstration: Space Based AstronomyFocus Areas: Education, Scientific Research Selected: 2013POC: Andrew Romero-Wolf 34.199096 -118.169545999999 0
23 Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology Pasadena, CA, 91109-8099?INSPIREMission to demonstrate fundamental CubeSat functionality in deep space (command & data handling telecommunication and navigation), characterize CubeSat system performance in the deep space environment, demonstrate both mother-daughter architectures by relaying communications from one spacecraft through the other and direct-to-Earth communications and demonstrate the science utility of CubeSats in deep space through magnetometer measurements.Payload: 1U JPL magnetometer; 1/2U Vulcan Wireless S-band transceiverScience/Technology Demonstration: Planetary ScienceFocus Areas: Technology Demonstration, EducationSelected: 2013POC: Courtney B. Duncan 34.2012256 -118.1707478 0
24 Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology Pasadena, CA, 91109 ISARAMission to demonstrate a high bandwidth Ka-band CubeSat communications capability that is ready for immediate infusion into commercial, government and military systems. Will increase downlink data rates from a baseline of 9.6 kbps to over 100 Mbps, elevating the antenna technology technology readiness level from 5 to 7.Payload: Reflect array Antenna ADACS System; KA-band SubsystemScience/Technology Demonstration: Communications - High data-rate communicationsFocus Areas: Technology Demonstration, Education Selected: 2013POC: Dr. Richard E. Hodges 34.201794 -118.168859 0
25 John Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory Laurel , MD, 20723 RAVANMission to demonstrate a radiometer that is compact, low-cost, and absolutely accurate to NIST-traceable standards. Primary Objective is to demonstrate the use of a vertically aligned carbon nanotube (VACNT) absorber within a radiometer for high-accuracy on-orbit measurements and the use of a gallium closed-cell source as a transfer standard for calibration of absolute radiometry. Successful demonstration will raise the TRL of these technologies from 5 to 7. Secondary objective is to conduct climate observation science.Payload: Vertically aligned carbon nanotube (VACNT) based BolometerScience/Technology Demonstration: Earth Science - Climate Observation; Radiometer Focus Areas: Technology Demonstration, Scientific Research Selected: 2014POC: William Swartz 39.164341 -76.898203 0
26 Marquette University Milwaukee, WI, 53233GE1: Golden Eagle 1Mission to provide parctical engineering experience to students by building space hardware that will take visible-spectrum and infrared photographs of Earth and to test emerging memory technologies for use in future spaceflight missions.Payload: Thermal Camera; visible light camera; Ferroelectric RAMScience/Technology Demonstration: Earth Science - Focus Areas: Education, Technology Demonstration Selected: 2014POC: Dr. Robert Bishop 43.038313 -87.930965 0
27 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA, 02139 ExoplanetSat A space telescope capable of monitoring a single target from low Earth orbit. By monitoring the brightest stars, ExoplanetSat aims to enable detailed follow-on observations to characterize the atmospheric constituents and mass of the detected exoplanets. May support discovery of small transiting exoplanets around the nearest and brightest Sun-like starsPayload: Exoplanet space telescope, Achieve arcsecond-level optical point precisionScience/Technology Demonstration: Space Based Astronomy - Exoplanet explorationFocus Areas: Scientific Research, Technology Demonstration Selected: 2011POC: Dr. Sara Seager 42.356261 -71.099052 0
28 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA, 02139 MicroMASMission is to observe convective thunderstorms, tropical cyclones, and hurricanes from a near-equatorial orbit at approximately 500-km altitude. MicroMAS is a passive microwave system that will achieve performance comparable to current systems with respect to spatial, spectral, and radiometric resolution at a very small fraction of the cost. Payload: Passive microwave (MMIC) spectrometer; Science/Technology Demonstration: Earth Science - Storms; HurricanesFocus Areas: Scientific ResearchSelected: 2012POC: Dr. Kerri Cahoy, Bill Blackwell 42.359824 -71.095382 0
29 Medgar Evers College Brooklyn, NY, 11225 CUNYSAT-1Mission to provide faculty and students hands-on flight development experience. It will investigate Ionospheric disturbances using scintillation measurements based on GPS satellite signals measuring rapid disturbances of the ionospheric charge densities (ionospheric scintillations).Payload: 12-channel L1 C/A code GPS receiverScience/Technology Demonstration: Space Weather Focus Areas: Education, Scientific Research Selected: 2010POC: Dr. Shermane Austin 40.84706 -73.916016 0
30 Merritt Island High School and California Polytechnic State University Merrit Island, FL, 32953 CP9-StangSatMission to conduct a P-POD Telemetry Study, two CubeSats are integrated into the same P-POD: Merritt Island High School is developing a 1U called StangSat, while Cal Poly’s PolySat team is developing CP9, a 2U. Both CubeSats will use two sets of wired tri-axial accelerometers to measure the dynamic environment of the P-POD from the beginning of launch vehicle powered flight until CubeSat ejection from the P-POD. StangSat will be streaming the mission data to CP9 in real time via 802.11 WiFi, and CP9 will downlink mission data collected by both satellites to the ground once in orbit. The P-POD telemetry study will serve as a technology demonstration for wireless streaming of data within the P-POD.Payload: Telemetry DataScience/Technology Demonstration: Communications - P-POD Telemetry StudyFocus Areas: Technology Demonstration, Education Selected: 2013POC: Tracey Beatovich 28.377129 -80.6984 0
31 MIT Lincoln Laboratory Lexington, MA, 02420 MiRaTAMission to demonstrate a multi-band miniaturized microwave radiometer to image tropical storms, hurricanes, and cyclones, paired with an experimental calibration method using GPS radio occultation. MiRaTA will: 1) Validate new ultra-compact and low-power technology for CubeSat-sized microwave radiometers operating near 52-58, 175-191, and 206-208 GHz; 2) Validate new GPS receiver and antenna array technology necessary for CubeSat tropospheric radio occultation sounding, and 3) Test a new approach to radiometer calibration using concurrent GPS radio occultation (GPSRO) measurements.Payload: Microwave radiometer; tri-band atmospheric sounder; Compact TEC (Total Electron Count) /Atmospheric GPS Sensor (CTAGS)Science/Technology Demonstration: Earth Science Focus Areas: Technology Demonstration, Education Selected: 2014POC: Dr. William J. Blackwell 42.458167 -71.266937 0
32 Montana State University - Bozeman Bozeman, MT, 59717-3840 Explorer-1 (Prime)Mission to honor the launch and scientific discoveries of the Explorer-1 mission, which detected the Van Allen radiation belts more than 50 years ago. It will carry a miniature Geiger tube to measure the intensity and variability of the electrons in the Van Allen belts.Payload: Miniature Geiger tubeScience/Technology Demonstration: Space Weather - HeliophysicsFocus Areas: Scientific Research, EducationSelected: 2009POC: Dr. David M. Klumpar 45.666876 -111.051478 0
33 Montana State University - Bozeman Bozeman, MT, 59717-3840 Explorer-1 [Prime] (Unit 2)Second satellite (first launched through ELaNa 1) to honor the launch and discoveries of the Explorer-1 mission that detected the Van Allen radiation belts more than 50 years ago. This satellite carries a miniature Geiger tube to measure intensity and variability of electrons in the Van Allen belts.Payload: Geiger-Mueller detectors, UHF communications systemScience/Technology Demonstration: Space Weather - HeliophysicsFocus Areas: Scientific Research, Education Selected: 2010 reflightPOC: Dr. David M. Klumpar 45.666846 -111.049418 0
34 Montana State University - Bozeman Bozeman, MT, 59717-3840 FIREBIRDMission to provide insight into acceleration and loss processes in the outer Van Allen radiation belt and to provide hands-on opportunities for undergraduates and graduates to develop flight hardware.Payload: DAPPER chip, Geometric factor, solid-state detectors to measure electron energy channelsScience/Technology Demonstration: Space Weather - HeliophysicsFocus Areas: Scientific Research, Education Selected: 2010POC: Dr. David M. Klumpar 45.668105 -111.049204 0
35 Montana State University - Bozeman Bozeman, MT, 59717-3840 PrintSatMission is a technology demonstration and student training/workforce development project. The objective of the mission is to measure the effectiveness of 3D printing and the Windform XT material as a structural material for space objects.Payload: 1U RAMPART (RApid prototyped Mems Propulsion And Radiation Test CUBE flow SATellite), Experiment board to perform materials testing Science/Technology Demonstration: Additive ManufacturingFocus Areas: Technology Demonstration, Education Selected: 2012POC: Dr. David M. Klumpar 45.667685 -111.050406 0
36 Montana State University - Bozeman Bozeman, MT, 59717-3840 SpaceBuoyMission aimed at providing the first-ever 2-D tomographic imaging from a research CubeSat, addressing the fundamental nature of the nocturnal ionosphere. To improve space weather forecasting related to dynamical processes in the Earth’s ionosphere by increasing understanding of the drivers for variation in the mass species distribution in the near-Earth plasma environment. Payload: CubeSat Tiny Ionospheric Photometer (CTIP)Science/Technology Demonstration: Space Weather - HeliophysicsFocus Areas: Scientific Research, Education Selected: 2013POC: Dr. David M. Klumpar 45.667385 -111.048431 0
37 Montana State University - Bozeman Bozeman, MT, 59717-3840 FIREBIRD-IIMission to advance the understanding of relativistic electron microbursts, providing dual point (and if operating simultaneously with FIREBIRD-I; four-point radiation belt measurements), and additional student hands-on training. Payload: DAPPER chip, Geometric factor, solid-state detectors to measure electron energy channelsScience/Technology Demonstration: Space Weather - HeliophysicsFocus Areas: Scientific Research, Education Selected: 2013POC: Dr. David M. Klumpar 45.666216 -111.050491 0
38 Montana State University - Bozeman Bozeman, MT, 59717-3780RadSatRadSat is a technology demonstration of a new radiation tolerant computer system in a low earth orbit (LEO) satellite mission to demonstrate TRL-9 of the technology. The computer system achieves radiation tolerance through a variety of fault mitigation approaches targeted at making commercial-off-the-shelf Field Programmable Gate Arrays less susceptible to single event effects. The computer system uses a novel fault mitigation strategy to recover from failures caused by high energy ionizing radiation.Payload: Radiation tolerant computer system; Radiation sensorScience/Technology Demonstration: Radiation toleranceFocus Areas: Technology Demonstration, EducationSelected: 2015POC: Dr. Brock LaMeres 45.666846 -111.049418 0
39 Morehead State University/Kentucky Space Morehead, KY, 40351 CXBNMission is to increase the precision of measurements of the Cosmic X-Ray Background in the 30-50KeV range. CXBN will provide a short-duration supplement to NASA’s Radiation Belt Storm Probes mission and is outfitted with state-of-the art Cadmium Zinc Telluride -based x-ray and gamma-ray detectors. The mission addresses a fundamental science question that is clearly central to our understanding of the structure, origin, and evolution of the universe by potentially lending insight into both the high energy background radiation and into the evolution of primordial galaxies.Payload: Cosmic X-ray Background AstronomyScience/Technology Demonstration: Space Based Astronomy - AstrophysicsFocus Areas: Scientific Research, Selected: 2011POC: Dr. Benjamin K. Malphrus 38.189157 -83.431104 0
40 Morehead State University/Kentucky Space Morehead, KY, 40351 CXBN-2Mission to increase the precision of measurements of the Cosmic X-Ray Background in the 30-50 keV range top a precision of Payload: Cadmium zinc telluride detector array; Cosmic X-ray Background AstronomyScience/Technology Demonstration: Space Based Astronomy - AstrophysicsFocus Areas: Scientific Research, Technology Demonstration Selected: 2013POC: Dr. Benjamin K. Malphrus 38.186117 -83.432751 0
41 NASA Ames Research Center Moffett Field, CA, 94035 PhoneSat 2Technology demonstration mission to launch the lowest-cost and easiest to build satellite ever flown using off-the-shelf consumer smartphones. Will utilize a Samsung Nexus S and will supplement the capabilities of the PhoneSat 1 mission with a two-way S-band radio, solar panels, GPS receiver, manetorquer coils and reactions wheels.Payload: Samsung Nexus S; two-way radio; magnetorquer coils, reaction wheelsScience/Technology Demonstration: Smartphone satellitesFocus Areas: Technology DemonstrationSelected: 2010POC: Terry Fong 37.406574 -122.062053999999 0
42 NASA Ames Research Center Moffett Field, CA, 94035 PhoneSat 2.4PhoneSat2.4 is the third in a series of missions designed to use commercially available smartphone technology as part of its low-cost development for basic spacecraft capabilities. The technology demonstration is a pathfinder for the Edison Demonstration of Smallsat Netowrk (EDSN) and will collect data on the long term performance of consumer technologies in space.Payload: Nexus One smartphone Science/Technology Demonstration: Smartphone satellites Focus Areas: Technology Demonstration, Selected: 2010POC: Terry Fong 37.407528 -122.060852 0
43 NASA Ames Research Center Moffett Field, CA, 94035 LightsailMission that will autonomously deploy a mylar solar sail with an area of 32 m2. Ground controllers will then command the spacecraft to “sail” on the energy of solar photons striking the sail material, demonstrating this technology as a revolutionary in-space propulsion system.Payload: 32 m2 solar sailScience/Technology Demonstration: In-Space Propulsion - Solar SailFocus Areas: Technology DemonstrationSelected: 2011POC: Bruce Yost 37.409845 -122.063435999999 0
44 NASA Ames Research Center Moffett Field, CA, 94035 SporeSat (Previously MisST)Mission to gain a deeper knowledge of the mechanism of cell gravity sensing by studying the activation of plant gravity sensing and electro-physical signaling in a single-cell model system (Ceratopteris richardii) using a “lab-on-a-chip” microsensor technology platform.Payload: Biological compact disk, variable-g centrifuge system and a lighting systemScience/Technology Demonstration: Biological Science Focus Areas: Scientific Research, Selected: 2012POC: Andres Martinez 37.405346 -122.060165 0
45 NASA Ames Research Center Moffett Field, CA, 94035 EcAMSatMission to investigate the effect of space microgravity on the resistance of the uropathogenic strain of Escherichia coli to an appropriate antibiotic and, by extension, the possible role of microgravity in antimicrobial resistance of a range of other pathogenic microbes of concern for their potential impact on human health and performance during human spaceflight, particularly for extended-duration missions.Payload: Radiation detector; Biological wells to grow uropathogenic E. coliScience/Technology Demonstration: Biological Science Focus Areas: Scientific Research Selected: 2013POC: Karolyn Ronzano 37.405892 -122.058105 0
46 NASA Ames Research Center Moffett Field, CA, 94035 SporeSatSporeSat is a fundamental space biology science experiment project to investigate biophysical mechanisms of plant gravity sensing using a “lab-on-a-chip” experiment approach. In addition it will serve as a technology platform to evaluate new microsensor technologies for enabling future fundamental biology missions.Payload: CEL-C Advanced bioCD Science/Technology Demonstration: Space Biology Focus Areas: Scientific Research, Technology Demonstration Selected: 2014POC: Andres Martinez 37.407392 -122.063599 0
47 NASA Glenn Research Center Cleveland, OH, 44135-3191ALBusThe Advanced eLectrical Bus (ALBus) CubeSat is a technology demonstration mission of an advanced, digitally controlled electrical power system capability and novel use of Shape Memory Alloy technology for reliable deployable solar array mechanisms. The goals of the mission are to demonstrate: efficient battery charging in the orbital environment, 100 Watt distribution to a target electrical load, flexible power system distribution interfaces, adaptation of power system control on orbit, and successful deployment of solar arrays and antennas utilizing resettable shape memory alloy mechanisms.Payload: Deployable Array Retention and Release Mechanism (Shape Memory Alloys); Advanced digitally controlled power management and distribution systemScience/Technology Demonstration: Space Power; Energy StorageFocus Areas: Technology DemonstrationSelected: 2015POC: Katie Shaw 41.4156979 -81.8620491 0
48 NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, 20771 HeDIMission designed to provide spatially resolved Doppler shifts during the impulsive phase of solar flares. By monitoring the entire solar disk for Doppler shifts in He II 304 A over a period of months during solar maximum (2013), HeDI will observe multiple C and M class flares which would provide important data to constrain models of solar flare intitiation.Payload: High-reflectivity SiC/Mg multilayer-coated optics, a compact Cassegrain telescopeScience/Technology Demonstration: Space Weather - HeliophysicsFocus Areas: Scientific Research, Selected: 2011POC: Adrian N. Daw 38.992805 -76.852541 0
49 NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, 20771 TechCube-1Mission to demonstrates real-time on-board product generation/event detection/data reduction technology developed to support the Earth Science Decadal Survey missions. Our base experiment consists of a GSFC supplied “Mini” SpaceCube and a JPL supplied spectrometer instrument & algorithms, flying in a polar sun-synchronous orbit.Payload: HD Camera, SST relativistic electron-proton detector, ion mass spectrometer, magnetometerScience/Technology Demonstration: Earth Science - HeliophysicsFocus Areas: Scientific Research, Technology Demonstration Selected: 2011POC: Thomas Flatley 38.994039 -76.851254 0
50 NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, 20771 RBLEMission is to fill a critical gap for Radiation Belt Storm Probes (RBSP) mission science by providing radial cuts to quantitatively constrain global energetic particle loss. Dynamic variability in the flux of relativistic particles in the radiation belts results from a delicate balance between particle acceleration, transport and loss. Leverages a new class of CubeSat platforms and develops instrumentation compatible it.Payload: Compact Relativistic Electron Proton Telescope; Visible light photometerScience/Technology Demonstration: Space Weather - HeliophysicsFocus Areas: Scientific Research, Technology Demonstration Selected: 2012POC: Brian Hall 38.991771 -76.854429 0
51 NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, 20771 ESCAPETechnology demonstration mission that will provide flight validation of a number of enabling technologies for Earth Science Missions. It will demonstrate the Fabry-Perot radiometer, an " intelligent instrument " , which can monitor trace gases and enhanced by an on-board science data processor providing a 10x to 100x improvement in on-board processing power. Payload: Fabry-Perot differential radiometerScience/Technology Demonstration: Earth Science - Atmospheric composition; Carbon Cycle Ecosystems; Climate variability and changeFocus Areas: Scientific Research, Technology Demonstration Selected: 2013POC: Tom Flatley 38.992305 -76.849451 0
52 NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, 20771 CRaBSSMission to provide a training opportunity for young scientists and engineers. It will enhance the science return of the RBSP mission by providing conjugate measurements at the high altitude foot points of the outer radiation belt magnetic field lines and to resolve the " loss cone " and provide reliable measurements of how many relativistic electrons are being removed from the radiation belts via impact with the Earth's atmosphere. Payload: Compact Relativisitc Electron Proton Telescope (CREPT); Spectrometer for NeUtrons and Gamma-Rays (SNuG)Science/Technology Demonstration: Space Weather - HeliophysicsFocus Areas: Education, Scientific Research Selected: 2013POC: Gary A. Crum 38.989903 -76.850138 0
53 NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, 20771 IceCubeMission to raise the technology readiness level(TRL) from 5 to 7 of 874 GHz submillimeter wave radiometer technology, which has never before flown in space which will meet the needs for measuring cloud ice properties. Payload: 874 GHz submillimeter wave radiometer technologyScience/Technology Demonstration: Earth Science - Climate ChangeFocus Areas: Technology Demonstration, Scientific Research Selected: 2013POC: Jeffrey R. Piepmeier 38.991571 -76.850824 0
54 NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, 20771 CeREsMission to advance understanding of the radiation belt electrons energization and loss processes (a goal of the Geospace program), as well as characterizing solar electrons and protons by making high-cadence, high-resolution measurements of the energy spectra of electrons and protons over a broad energy range. It will aslo provide flight validation for a new, small lightweight instrument with future applications in magnetospheric, planetary, and interplanetary space studies. Payload: Miniaturized Electron and Proton Telescope (MERiT); Center for High-Performance Reconfigurable Computing (CHREC) space processor; XB1 Bus SystemScience/Technology Demonstration: Space Weather; Heliophysics Focus Areas: Scientific Research, Technology Demonstration Selected: 2014POC: Dr. Shrikanth Kanekal 38.99097 -76.852455 0
55 NASA Independent Verification & amp; Validation Facility and West Virginia University Fairmont, WV, 26554-8817STF-1The primary objective of the Simulation-to-Flight 1 (STF-1) mission is to demonstrate the utility of the NASA Operational Simulator (NOS) technologies across the CubeSat development cycle, from concept planning to mission operations. The STF-1 mission will demonstrate a highly portable simulation and test platform that allows seamless transition of mission development artifacts to flight products. This environment will be highly portable and will decrease the development time of future CubeSat missions by lessening the dependency on hardware resources.Payload: Fast, Orbital, Total Electron Content (TEC), Observables and Navigation (FOTON) software-defined multi-frequency Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) space receiver; Langmuir probe; radio sounder; array of 3 particle counters; COTS photometerScience/Technology Demonstration: NASA Operational Simulator Engine (with hardware emulators) flight technology demonstration; GPS and Inertial Measurement Units Science Experiments; Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Coupling and Space Weather; Performance & Durability of III-V Nitride-Based MaterialsFocus Areas: Technology Demonstration, Scientific ResearchSelected: 2015POC: Justin Morris 39.4383143 -80.1782227 0
56 NASA Kennedy Space Center Kennedy Space Center, FL, 32899 CryoCubeMission to provide a steady-state low-acceleration environment in which Cryogenic Propellant Storage and Transfer (CPST) experiments can be performed at a low cost. Will visually observe bubble formation and movement and its effect on liquid-vapor detection sensors used with the Reduced Gravity Cryo-Tracker mass gauging system. Data from CryoCube experiments will be directly applicable to in-space propellant depots and a CPST because the experiments will use actual cryogenic propellants, oxygen and hydrogen.Payload: Reduced Gravity Cryo-Tracker, Cryocooler, sun shieldScience/Technology Demonstration: Cryogenics - Cryogenic Propellant Storage and TransferFocus Areas: Scientific Research, Technology Demonstration Selected: 2012POC: Justin M. Oliveira 28.585841 -80.654363 0
57 NASA Kennedy Space Center Kennedy Space Center, FL, 32899 CryoCube-2Mission to perform cyrogenic propellant storage and transfer experiments that support the development of in-space propellant depots or a cryogenic propulsion state. It will collect data on mxing of stratified liquid oxygen and on slosh of the liquid induced by applied accelerations.Payload: Deployable sunshield, gas generatorsScience/Technology Demonstration: Cryogenics - Cryogenic Propellant Storage and TransferFocus Areas: Scientific ResearchSelected: 2013POC: Justin M. Oliveira 28.576985 -80.642052 0
58 New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology Socorro, NM, 87801 NMTSatMission is to provide graduate and undergraduate students with hands-on experience designing and building flight hardware which will host space weather sensors. As a secondary objective, it will include a Structural health monitor and an Electrical health montor for monitoring the satellites state of health. Payload: Structural health monitor; Electrical health monitor; Langmuir Plasma Probet; MagnetometerScience/Technology Demonstration: Space Weather Focus Areas: Education, Technology Demonstration Selected: 2014POC: Dr. Anders M. Jorgensen 34.06601 -106.905577 0
59 Pennsylvania State University University Park, PA, 16802 OSIRIS-3UMission to provide in situ and remote sensing measurements of the spatial characteristics of stimulated (heated) ionosphere, which will be correlated with groundbased measurements to better understand variable space weather conditions and phenomena such as ionospheric irregularities. The mission objectives are:Primary Objectives: 1. Provide in situ and remote sensing measurements of the stimulated (heated) ionosphere produced by ground-based heaters ;2. Characterize the spatial extent of the heated region “bite out”; 3. Correlate in situ and remote sensing heated ionosphere measurements with ground-based measurements including incoherent scatter radars and ionosondes; 4. Develop the aerospace workforce by training students in space systems engineering through hands-on projects Secondary Objectives: 1. Investigate anomalous electron number density enhancements in the night-time ionosphere; 2. Correlate in situ and remote sensing measurements at Arecibo’s conjugate point with heating eventsPayload: Langmuir probe; GPS radio occultation; Coherent Electromangetic Radio Tomography (CERTO) BeaconScience/Technology Demonstration: Space Weather Focus Areas: Scientific Research, Education Selected: 2013POC: Dr. Sven Bilen 40.808417 -77.863369 0
60 St. Louis University St. Louis, MO, 63103 COPPERThe Close Orbiting Propellant Plume Elemental Recognition (COPPER) is a technology demonstration mission whose objective is to test the suitability of a commercially-available compact uncooled microbolometer (tiny infrared camera) array for scientific imagery of Earth in the long-wave infrared range (LWIR, 7-13 microns).Payload: FLIR Tau 320 microblometer array (tiny infrared camera)Science/Technology Demonstration: Earth Science Focus Areas: Technology Demonstration, Education Selected: 2011POC: Dr. Michael Swartwout 38.633232 -90.226936 0
61 St. Louis University St. Louis, MO, 63103-2006 ARGUSMission is to improve modeling of the effects of radiation on space electronics. Payload is an array of radiation-effects modeling experiments; on-orbit event rates will be compared against ground predictions to help calibrate new predictive models developed at ISDE. Argus leverages COTS CubeSat systems and the extremely simple payload requirements to enable a short-turnaround mission. Argus is based on the COPPER CubeSat at SLU, which is in the integration & test phase and will fly as part as ELaNa IV in Q4 2012. Payload: Set of SRAM memory devices, Tungsten-wrapped diodesScience/Technology Demonstration: Radiation testing - Improve modeling of the effects of radiation on space electronicsFocus Areas: Scientific Research, Education Selected: 2012POC: Dr. Michael Swartwout 38.6366 -90.230251 0
62 St. Louis University St. Louis, MO, 63103-2006 RASCALTwo-spacecraft mission to demonstrate key technologies for proximity operations: infrared and visible image-based navigation, precision six-degree-of-freedom control using coldgas thrusters, and navigation algorithms optimized to work with those technologies. Rascal will leverage CubeSat systems: COPPER, Argus, and RAMPART.Payload: FLIR Tau 320 microblometer array (tiny infrared camera); Field-programmable gate array (FPGA); COTS visible cameraScience/Technology Demonstration: Navigation and Control - Close proximity operationsFocus Areas: Technology Demonstration, Education Selected: 2013POC: Dr. Michael Swartwout 38.635377 -90.235176 0
63 St. Thomas More Cathedral School Arlington, VA, 22203 STMSat-1Mission is to provide a hand-on, inquiry based learning activities with and on-orbit mission to photograph the Earth and transmit images to our primary ground station and to remote ground stations throughout the country.Would be the first CubeSat launched by a primary school.Payload: Small electro optical visible camera (Earth/Orbital Debris/Asteroid Observation); Slow scan TV (SSTV) systemScience/Technology Demonstration: - Focus Areas: Education, Selected: 2014POC: Melissa Pore 38.870938 -77.104304 0
64 Salish Kootenai College Pablo, MT, 59855 BisonSatMission to demonstrate the acquisition of 100-meter or better resolution visible light imagery of Earth using passive magnetic stabilization from a CubeSat and to engage tribal college students and communities in NASA's mission. Will be the first CubeSat designed, built, tested, and operated by tribal college students. The science data, 33 km x 33 km color images with a resolution of 130 m, a few of which will be images of the Flathead Indian Reservation in northwest Montana, will be used primarily for engaging tribal college students and tribal communities in NASA’s mission.Payload: Visible light cameraScience/Technology Demonstration: Earth Science - Earth ImageryFocus Areas: Education, Technology Demonstration Selected: 2012POC: Timothy S. Olson 47.596986 -114.1088 0
65 Southwest Research Institute San Antonio, TX, 78238-5166CuSPPThe CuSPP mission is space weather missions that will study the sources and acceleration mechanisms of solar and interplanetary (IP) particles near-Earth orbit. It will study magnetospheric ion precipitation in the high-latitude ionosphere. CuSSP will Increase the TRL of the SwRIs Suprathermal Ion Spectrograph concept so that it may fly with reduced risk and cost on future Heliophysics missions. CuSPP sweeps through the polar cap regions and all magnetospheric L-shells at an orbital period of ~95 minutes from a ~550 km circular, > 65° inclination, Low Earth Orbit (LEO).Payload: In situ Suprathermal Ion Spectrograph (SIS) instrumentScience/Technology Demonstration: Heliophysics; Space WeatherFocus Areas: Scientific ResearchSelected: 2015POC: Dr. Mihir I Desai 29.4527522999999 -98.6146545 0
66 SRI International Menlo Park, CA, 94025 RAXMission is to use a ground-to-space bistatic coherent-scatter radar system to analyze the distribution of naturally occurring ionosphere irregularities. RAX will provide insight on how those irregularities degrade the performance of communication and navigation satellites.Payload: RAX Radar ReceiverScience/Technology Demonstration: Space Weather - Atmospheric ResearchFocus Areas: Scientific Research, Technology Demonstration Selected: 2010POC: Dr. Rick Doe 37.457613 -122.176507 0
67 Taylor University Upland, IN, 46989 TSATA dual mission using the Iridium satellite communication modem to demonstrate a reliable and global nanosat network and a Space Weather bus design consisting of a plasma probe, 3-axis magnetometer, and 3 UV photodiodes. Collaboration with the University of Chile.Payload: Iridium modem, Langmuir Plasma probe, 3-axis magnetometer, 3 UV photodiodesScience/Technology Demonstration: Communications - Iridium modemFocus Areas: Technology Demonstration, Education Selected: 2012POC: Dr. Hank Voss 40.459324 -85.497561 0
68 Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology Alexandria, VA, 22312 TJ3SatThis CubeSat’s mission is to create educational resources through which other K-12 institutions can learn about aerospace engineering and be encouraged to seek careers in the STEM fields. The primary payload is a voice synthesizer module that takes written phrases in the form of code and produces a phonetic voice reading on the satellite’s downlink frequencies.Payload: TextSpeak moduleScience/Technology Demonstration: Education Focus Areas: Education, Selected: 2011POC: Alishan Hassan 38.818682 -77.168767 0
69 Tyvak Nano-Satellites Systems and includes 406 Aerospace, Applied Defense Solutions, and California Polytechnic State University Orange, CA, 92869 PONSFDMission to validate key technologies to support rendezvous, proximity operations, docking, servicing and formation flight using nano-satellites. Once the demonstration has been completed, a high TRL suite of miniature RPO sensors and software, as well as a nanosatellite will have been developed and demonstrated, and the resulting systems will represent very low-cost, ‘on-the-shelf’ solutions available for infusion into future Earth Science, Interplanetary and other missions. Payload: Visible camera (Aptina MT9V034); Inertial Refernce Module; nano-Reaction Wheel Array, GPS receiverScience/Technology Demonstration: Navigation and Control - Close proximity operationsFocus Areas: Technology Demonstration Selected: 2013POC: Mr. Charles S. “Scott” MacGillivray 33.650976 -117.734256 0
70 U.S. Air Force Academy Colorado Springs, CO, 80840 PeregrineMission to demonstrate photon sieve technology to improve membrane optics which will enable larger apertures, lower mass and cheaper costs for intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance imaging missions. Payload: Photon sieveScience/Technology Demonstration: Imaging and Optics - Membrane optics for imagingFocus Areas: Technology Demonstration, Selected: 2012POC: Dr. Mike Dearborn 38.99027 -104.858313 0
71 U.S. Air Force Institute of Technology Wright Patterson AFB, OH, 45433 PTLSMission to use an Iridium 9602 Short Burst Data (SBD) Transceiver to conduct experiments to measure system’s ability to: Report on-orbit events in near real-time; Command a satellite anytime, anywhere; Receive telemetry and science data in near real-time.Payload: Iridium 9602 Short Burst Data (SBD) TransceiverScience/Technology Demonstration: Communications - Iridium modemFocus Areas: Technology Demonstration Selected: 2012POC: Eric Swenson 39.782949 -84.082403 0
72 U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory Kirtland AFB, NM, 87117-0001 PSSC TestbedMission to test solar arrays in a high radiation orbit, testing latest solar array technology including solar cells, interconnects, coverglass, adhesives, and coatings.Payload: EMCORE array, Spectrolab array, Radiation sensorScience/Technology Demonstration: Space Power - Solar Cell degradationFocus Areas: Technology Demonstration, Scientific Research Selected: 2011POC: Edward J. Simburger 35.004128 -106.534424 0
73 U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory Kirtland AFB, NM, 87117-0001 RAMPARTTechnology demonstration mission to determine if rapid prototyping can be used to manufacture space hardware. It will validate Windform XT Rapid Prototyping advanced materials in a harsh space environment. Payload: DAVE radiation environment sensor; AFRL Photovoltaic Experiment; AFRL SPA ExperimentScience/Technology Demonstration: Additive ManufacturingFocus Areas: Technology DemonstrationSelected: 2012POC: James R. Lyke 35.017626 -106.467133 0
74 U.S. Army Space & amp; Missile Command Huntsville, AL, 35898 SMDC-TechSatMission to improve advanced power system and fault tolerant software; to improve solar energy generation system capacity by increasing surface area with expandable, articulated arra; to improve power management, storage, and distribution by implementing intelligent control algorithms for power allocation to optimize power over mission profile and validating energy storage model from lithium ion cell characterization testing; to advance state-of-the-art in power generation, storage, management, & distribution, thermal management of bus and electronics.Payload: Joint articulated solar arrayScience/Technology Demonstration: Space Power - Solar CellFocus Areas: Technology Demonstration, Selected: 2011POC: John R. London III 34.774332 -86.713028 0
75 U.S. Army Space & amp; Missile Command Huntsville, AL, 35898 SNAP-3Mission to demonstrate beyond line of sight UHF communications with unmodified, standard issue Army portable radios utilizing three cubesats in 750km orbit; Relay communications & data exfiltration. Goal of more than 5x increase in data rate over SMDC-ONE; NSA Type 1 data encryption for communications relay beyond line of sight; Payload: Miniaturized Software Defined Radio with NSA Type 1 encryption; GPSScience/Technology Demonstration: Communications - Encrypted communicationsFocus Areas: Technology Demonstration Selected: 2012POC: LTC Patrick M. Marshall 34.780006 -86.706632 0
76 U.S. Army Space & amp; Missile Command Huntsville, AL, 35898 ORSESMission to increase power for a Cubesat radio and demonstrate beyond line of sight, UHF communications with unmodified, standard issue Army portable radios. NSA Type 1 encryption demonstrated in space. Pushes data rate to near maximum for a cubesat at UHF frequencies: 56 kilobits/secPayload: Vulcan Software Defined RadioScience/Technology Demonstration: Communications - Software Defined RadioFocus Areas: Technology DemonstrationSelected: 2012POC: LTC Patrick M. Marshall 34.649026 -86.645737 0
77 U.S. Military Academy West Point, NY, 10996 Black Knight 1Mission is to perform on-orbit experiment and technology demonstration of a potential magnetic passive attitude control and friction based damping system, using a low cost COTS visible imager as an attitude determination sensor. Science/Technology Demonstration: Navigation and Control - Experimental passive attitude control and damping systemFocus Areas: Education, Technology Demonstration Selected: 2011POC: Thomas S. Pugsley 41.379543 -73.963177 0
78 U.S. Naval Academy Annapolis, MD, 21402 TetherSatMission to demonstrate and analyze the deployment of a 1 km long conductive wire tether deployment to mitigate a significant mission risk to a thrusting electrodynamic tether satellite being developed for the Naval Research Lab electrodynamic tether mission.Payload: Tether, AccelerometersScience/Technology Demonstration: Tether deployment Focus Areas: Education, Technology Demonstration Selected: 2011POC: CDR Robert E. Stevens 38.981997 -76.483448 0
79 U.S. Naval Postgraduate School Monterey, CA, 93943-5001 NPS-ScatMission to measures the characteristics of a solar cell to gain an understanding of how the experimental solar cells degrade over time due to interactions with the space environment. Payload: Solar Cell Measurement SystemScience/Technology Demonstration: Space Power - Solar cell performanceFocus Areas: Technology Demonstration, Education Selected: 2011 36.597062 -121.873740999999 0
80 U.S. Naval Postgraduate School Monterey, CA, 93943 STAREMission to develop a low cost Nano-satellite with an optical sensor to demonstrate in-space detection and tracking of small orbiting objects, enabling the refinement of the orbital parameters, otherwise not necessarily available through ground base observation. Payload: Cassegrain telescope with a focal length of 225 mm and aperture of 85 mmScience/Technology Demonstration: Orbital debris - In-space detection and tracking of orbital debrisFocus Areas: Technology Demonstration, Selected: 2012POC: Scot S Olivier 36.594788 -121.874770999999 0
81 U.S. Naval Postgraduate School Monterey, CA, 93943 TINYSCOPEMission to demonstrate the tactical utility of an Earth-imaging nano-satellite from Low-Earth orbit with 3-axis control using Momentum Exchange Devices and a customized optical package. Demonstrate the technology to provide near-persistent Earth-coverage through a potential constellation of spacecraft. Constellation concept enabled through relatively-low cost nodes. Payload: Matsukov Cassegrain Telescope; Momentum Exchange Device actuator packageScience/Technology Demonstration: Earth Science - Earth ImageryFocus Areas: Technology Demonstration, Education Selected: 2012POC: Dr. Marcello Romano 36.594039 -121.87681 0
82 U.S. Naval Research Lab Washington, DC, 20375 TEPCEMission to demonstrate electrodynamic propulsion, using the magnetic field and electricity generated by the sun/solar arrays to provide propellantless propulsion for spacecraft. Its objective is to demonstrate change in orbit using thrust generated by electrodynamic propulsion.Payload: Stacer, tether, 1% thoriated tungsten filaments, Electron sensor, Impedence probe, camerasScience/Technology Demonstration: In-Space Propulsion - Electrodynamic propulsionFocus Areas: Technology Demonstration, Scientific Research Selected: 2011POC: Shannon L. Coffee 38.822975 -77.018194 0
83 U.S. Naval Research Lab Washington, DC, 20375 GROUP-CMission to acquire ionospheric occultations and measurements of ultraviolet airglow on the Earth's disk from a small (3U CubeSat) spacecraft. These data will be used to support improvements to the ionospheric models and predicted impacts on radio-based techology systems. A secondary objective is to provide data as a validation point for Defense Meteorological Satellite Program ionospheric data.Payload: Space environment sensors: Ultraviolet photometer, GPS receiverScience/Technology Demonstration: Space Weather - Ionosphere OcculationsFocus Areas: Scientific Research, Technology Demonstration Selected: 2011POC: Andrew C. Nicholas 38.822792 -77.019224 0
84 University of Alabama at Huntsville Huntsville, AL, 35899 ChargerSat-1ChargerSat-1’s mission is to conduct three technology demonstrations: a gravity gradient stabilization system will passively stabilize the spacecraft; deployable solar panels will nearly double the power input to the spacecraft; and the same deployable solar panels will shape the gain pattern of a nadir-facing monopole antenna, allowing improved horizon-to-horizoncommunications.Payload: Passive nadir axis stabilization for picosatellite attitude control, communications, and deployable solar panelsScience/Technology Demonstration: Communications - Solar panel deploymentFocus Areas: Technology Demonstration, Education Selected: 2012POC: Dr. John Gregory 34.726523 -86.639696 0
85 University of Alaska, Fairbanks Fairbanks, AK, 99775 ARCTechnology demonstration mission to validate LEO spacecraft platform and test a novel low-power attitude control and determination system, and a communication system capable of high bandwidth data transfer.Payload: Launch Environmental Data Logger, Imaging system (Omnivision OV10620)Science/Technology Demonstration: Earth Science - Snow/ice coverage in arcticFocus Areas: Technology Demonstration, Education Selected: 2010POC: Dr. Denise Thorsen 64.85916 -147.820944 0
86 University of Buffalo Buffalo, NY, 14260-7016 GLADOSMission to investigate technologies related to Space Situational Awareness. Will study multi-band glint observations for the characterization of deep space objects and resident space objects in geosynchronous orbit and will collect time-series photometric and spectral measurements over the visible and near-infrared wavelength bands. Will demonstrate the feasibility of using a network of low-cost, space-based nanosatellites to augment the current Space Surveillance Network. Payload: PCO PixeFly (guider camera); RGB Bayer filter; spectrometer; two lensesScience/Technology Demonstration: Orbital debris - In-space detection and tracking of orbital debrisFocus Areas: Scientific ResearchSelected: 2013POC: Dr. John L. Crassidis 42.99611 -78.784332 0
87 University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, CA, 94720-7450 CINEMAMission will conduct magnetorpheric science and collect critical space weather measurements. It will image energetic neutral atoms in the magnetosphere and make onboard measurements of electrons, ions and magnetic fields at high altitudes.Payload: SupraThermal Electron, Ion, Neutral (STEIN) detector, 3-axis miniature magneto-resistive magnetometersScience/Technology Demonstration: Space Weather - HeliophysicsFocus Areas: Scientific Research, Education Selected: 2010POC: Dr. Robert P Lin 37.880121 -122.244036 0
88 University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, CA, 94720-7450 CINEMA IIPrimary mission is scientific research into the dynamics of the Earth’s magnetospheric ring current by stereo imaging of remote suprathermal plasmas through the energetic neutral atoms produced by charge exchange with Earth’s neutral atmosphere, and by multipoint in situ measurements of precipitating ions and electrons plus magnetic fields. The secondary focus is the technology demonstration of the SupraThermal Electron, Ion, Neutral (STEIN) detector and the magneto-resistive magnetometers for scientific research. Payload: SupraThermal Electron, Ion, Neutral (STEIN) detector, magnetometerScience/Technology Demonstration: Space Weather - HeliophysicsFocus Areas: Scientific Research, Technology Demonstration Selected: 2012POC: Dr. Robert P Lin 37.880582 -122.244632 0
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