The Space Systems Development Laboratory was established in 1994 at Stanford University to give graduate and undergraduate students project based learning experience in microsatellite design, fabrication, test, launch integration and space operations. These students have completed two satellites - one called OPAL was launched on January 26, 2000, and the second called SAPPHIRE is tentatively scheduled for launch in late 2002. There are three additional satellites now in developments. OPAL had a unique primary objective payload. This was to launch six small Klondike ice cream bar size picosatellites. It completed this mission to gain a record of orbiting the world's smallest functional satellites. The next generation in picosats under developement that have a tentative late 2002 launch are called CubeSats. Launchers are under development to release multiple 4-inch cube CubeSats that can be used by amateur radio enthusiast, universities and government laboratories for inexpensive space testing.


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    Title :

    Space system developments at Stanford University: from launch experience of microsatellites to the proposed future use of picosatellites


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    Small Payloads in Space ; 2000 ; San Diego,CA,United States


    Published in:

    Publication date :

    2000-11-07





    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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