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Fri, Feb 11, 2011

CubeSat Space Mission Candidates Announced

Twenty Small Satellites To Be Developed By Industry, Academia, Military

NASA has selected 20 small satellites to fly as auxiliary cargo aboard rockets planned to launch in 2011 and 2012. The proposed CubeSats come from a high school in Virginia, universities across the country, NASA field centers and Department of Defense organizations.

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 2.2 pounds or less.

The selections are from the second round of the CubeSat Launch Initiative. The satellites are expected to conduct technology demonstrations, educational research or science missions. The selected spacecraft are eligible for flight after final negotiations when an opportunity arises. The satellites come from the following organizations, which include the first high school proposal selected for a CubeSat flight:

  • Air Force Research Lab, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, OH
  • Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA
  • NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD (two CubeSats)
  • NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA (two CubeSats)
  • Naval Research Lab, Washington, DC (two CubeSats)
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Morehead State University, Morehead, KY
  • The Planetary Society, Pasadena, in partnership with NASA's Ames Research Center, Moffitt Field, CA
  • Space and Missile Defense Command, Huntsville, AL
  • St. Louis University, St. Louis, MS
  • Thomas Jefferson High School, Alexandria, VA
  • University of Colorado
  • University of Hawaii
  • University of Louisiana, Lafayette
  • University of New Mexico
  • U.S. Military Academy
  • U.S. Naval Academy


CubeSat NASA Image

The first CubeSats to be carried on an expendable vehicle for the agency's Launch Services Program will comprise NASA's Educational Launch of Nanosatellite, or ELaNa, mission. ELaNa will fly on the Glory mission scheduled to lift off on Feb. 23. The 12 CubeSat payloads selected from the first round of the CubeSat Launch Initiative will have launch opportunities beginning later this year.

FMI: www.nasa.gov/directorates/somd/home/CubeSats_initiative.html

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