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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 time by a process of emergence. The first CubeSats were launched in June 2003 on a Russian Eurockot, and approximately 75 CubeSats have been placed into orbit as of August 2012. The CubeSat specification accomplishes several high-level goals. Simplification of the satellite's infrastructure makes it possible to design and produce a workable satellite at low cost. Encapsulation of the launcher-payload interface takes away the prohibitive amount of managerial work that would previously be required for mating a piggyback satellite with its launcher. Unification among payloads and launchers enables quick exchanges of payloads and utilization of launch opportunities on short notice. The term "CubeSat" was coined to denote nano-satellites that adhere to the standards described in the CubeSat design specification. Cal Poly published the standard in an effort led by aerospace engineering professor Jordi Puig-S
