1. SOCEM: Sub-Orbital CubeSat Experimental Mission
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Jordi Puig-Suari, Riki Munakata, Roland Coelho, J. Kruth, Twyman Clements, Benjamin Malphrus, Daniel M. Erb, James E. Lumpp, Samir A. Rawashdeh, Charles Brodell, Anthony K. Karam, Ivan Bland, Jason Reese, Nathan Fite, Scott Schaire, and Jason R. Bratcher
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Aerospace instrumentation ,Depth sounding ,Engineering ,Sounding rocket ,Aeronautics ,Software deployment ,business.industry ,CubeSat ,Satellite ,Aerospace engineering ,Actuator ,business - Abstract
SOCEM: Sub-Orbital CubeSat Experimental Mission will attempt, for the first time, to eject CubeSats in space from a sub-orbital sounding rocket.1 2 This technology demonstration flight will eject two CubeSats from a standard 17-inch diameter NASA sounding rocket. Two student-designed and student-built CubeSats will be ejected as part of the mission, a 2U CubeSat ADAMASat (Antenna Deployment and Mono-filament Actuator Satellite) developed by Kentucky Space to test CubeSat actuator designs and a 1U CubeSat developed by Cal Poly as a test-bed for PolySat bus technologies. The CubeSats will be ejected perpendicular to the direction of flight without requiring a de-spin maneuver providing the CubeSats with several minutes in space before re-entry and impact in the Atlantic Ocean. The SOCEM flight is scheduled for launch on 21 January 2010. Success in this effort could provide a robust ride-share technology for future NASA sounding rocket missions.
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- 2010
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