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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 43. Chapters: Aalto-1, AAUSAT-II, AAU CubeSat, AeroCube 3, ArduSat, AubieSat-1, BeeSat-1, Canadian Advanced Nanospace eXperiment Program, CAPE-1, CASsat, Chasqui I, Compass-1, CP-6, Cubesat Space Protocol, CUTE-1.7, Delfi-C3, DTUsat, Dynamic Ionosphere CubeSat Experiment, E-st@r, Explorer-1 Prime, F-1 (satellite), Goliat, HawkSat I, Hayato (satellite), Hermes (satellite), ITUpSAT1, KySat-1, Libertad 1, List of CubeSats, M-Cubed, MaSat-1, Multi-Application Survivable Tether, NanoSail-D, NanoSail-D2, NCube (satellite), NEE-01 Pegasus, Negai (satellite), PharmaSat, PRESat, PW-Sat, QuakeSat, Radio Aurora Explorer, Raiko, Rincon 1, ROBUSTA, SACRED, SEEDS-2, StudSat, SwissCube-1, TechEdSat, Tempo3, UCISAT, UniCubeSat-GG, UWE-1, UWE-2, Waseda-SAT2, Xatcobeo. Excerpt: A CubeSat is a type of miniaturized satellite for space research that usually has a volume of exactly one liter (10 cm cube), has a mass of no more than 1.33 kilograms, and typically uses commercial off-the-shelf electronics components. Beginning in 1999, California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly) and Stanford University developed the CubeSat specifications to help universities worldwide to perform space science and exploration. The majority of development comes from academia, but several companies have built CubeSats, including large-satellite-maker Boeing. The CubeSat format is also popular with amateur radio satellite builders. The CubeSat reference design was proposed by professors Jordi Puig-Suari of California Polytechnic State University and Bob Twiggs of Stanford University. The goal was to enable graduate students to be able to design, build, test and operate in space a spacecraft with capabilities similar to that of the first spacecraft, Sputnik. The CubeSat as initially proposed did not set out to become a standard; rather, it became a standard over...
