ARLA/CLUSTER: Nasa vai lançar 24 nanosatelites experimentais universitários entre 2014 a 2016

[João Costa > CT1FBF]

The NASA CubeSat Launch Initiative has selected more than two dozen
(24) satellites, including JPL’s Interplanetary NanoSpacecraft
Pathfinder In Relevant Environment (INSPIRE), for launch in 2014-2016.

INSPIRE consists of two 3U (10cm x 10cm x 30cm) CubeSats, which will
demonstrate communication, navigation and payload-hosting in
interplanetary space. The goal of INSPIRE is to open deep-space
heliophysics and planetary science to the CubeSat community.

In addition to INSPIRE, the CubeSat Launch Initiative selected two
other JPL missions for launch:
 •The CubeSat VHF transmitter to study Ionospheric dispersion of Radio
Pulses (CHIRP) is a 6U(10cm x 20cm x 30cm)  CubeSat  that will measure
Very High Frequency radio pulses propagated through the ionosphere.
This data will be used in the development of SWORD, a future
explorer-class charged-particle astronomical observatory.

•The Integrated Solar Array and Reflectarray Antenna (ISARA) is a 3U
CubeSat to demonstrate of a low-cost Ka-band high-gain antenna that
can increase downlink data rates from 9.6 kilobits per second to more
than 100 megabits per second.

Also selected were CubeSat satellites from:

•The Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, CA.
 •The Discovery Museum and Planetarium, Bridgeport, CT.
 •Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott, AZ.
 •Morehead State University, Morehead, KY an the University of
California at Berkeley.
 •Montana State University, Bozeman and the University of New
Hampshire, Durham (2 CubeSats).
 •Merritt Island High School, FL and California Polytechnic State
University, San Luis Obispo.
 •NASA Ames Research Center.
 •NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (three CubeSats).
 •NASA Kennedy Space Center, FL.
 •Pennsylvania State University, Aerospace Corporation, and the Naval
Research Laboratory, Monterey, CA.
 •Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MO.
 •Tyvak Nano-Satellites Systems, Irvine, CA and California Polytechnic
State University.
 •The State University of New York at Buffalo.
 •The University of Colorado at Boulder.
 •The University of Florida, Gainesville, and Stanford University.
 •The University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
 •The University of Texas at Austin.
 •Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN and the Radio Amateur Satellite
Corporation, Silver Spring, MD.

Fonte: Citizens in Space