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Cubesats are basically the size of a milk carton, an inteface standard produced by CalPoly for four standard sizes of satellite, 0.5U, 1U, 2U, and 3U.  Each U is a kg and a L.  The height and width are always 10cm, each U is 10cm of length.  This standard is based on how the deployer pods work (there are more than the well known P-POD in service.)  The satellite rides out of the deployer pod on corner rails; it is fired out by a spring pusher, very similar to the way a Nerf (tm) gun works.  The 3kg payload of the deployer pod is the basis for Prochron's payload objective.
 
Cubesats are basically the size of a milk carton, an inteface standard produced by CalPoly for four standard sizes of satellite, 0.5U, 1U, 2U, and 3U.  Each U is a kg and a L.  The height and width are always 10cm, each U is 10cm of length.  This standard is based on how the deployer pods work (there are more than the well known P-POD in service.)  The satellite rides out of the deployer pod on corner rails; it is fired out by a spring pusher, very similar to the way a Nerf (tm) gun works.  The 3kg payload of the deployer pod is the basis for Prochron's payload objective.
 
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CubeSat
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CubeSat <br>
http://cubesat.atl.calpoly.edu/
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http://cubesat.atl.calpoly.edu/ <br>
http://www.cubesatkit.com/
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http://www.cubesatkit.com/ <br>

Latest revision as of 23:23, 24 October 2008

Cubesats are basically the size of a milk carton, an inteface standard produced by CalPoly for four standard sizes of satellite, 0.5U, 1U, 2U, and 3U. Each U is a kg and a L. The height and width are always 10cm, each U is 10cm of length. This standard is based on how the deployer pods work (there are more than the well known P-POD in service.) The satellite rides out of the deployer pod on corner rails; it is fired out by a spring pusher, very similar to the way a Nerf (tm) gun works. The 3kg payload of the deployer pod is the basis for Prochron's payload objective.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CubeSat
http://cubesat.atl.calpoly.edu/
http://www.cubesatkit.com/

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