CubeSat Telescope
PI:
Ted Kostiuk, NASA Goddard Spaceflight Center
The CubeSat Telescope project aims to demonstrate the design of a compact telescope with fast, reflective optics and an interface, including fiber optic coupling, appropriate for use with UV-Vis-NIR mini-spectrometers. Such a telescope subsystem would have a “standard” instrument interface and be compatible with low-cost, mass-produced spectrometers. This approach can lead to rapid CubeSat instrument development, paving the way for large scale deployment to study planets, Earth and other solar system objects over a broad spectral range (UV-NIR) and enable atmospheric and surface studies on multiple targets at reduced cost and improved efficiency and science return.
Recent News
- On September 26th, the 2nd Planetary CubeSat Science Symposium was held at NASA GSFC, attended by over 100 scientists and engineers. Three sessions of oral talks covered: flight opportunities and programmatics; mission concepts; and hardware systems including buses, propulsion, communications and instrumentation. There was lively Q&A periods at the end of each session, and an afternoon poster session that gave mission proposers the opportunity to meet with vendors and suppliers. Presentations and posters have now been posted.
- Registration for the 2nd Planetary CubeSat Science Symposium, September 26, 2017, is now closed.
Upcoming events
- Small Sat Symposium, Silicon Valley, Feb 5-7, 2018
- All events
