Introduction: The history of the CubeSat by Bob Twiggs and Jordi Puig-Suari
1: The CubeSat standard
The CubeSat came about from a project at the Aeronautics and Astronautics Department that Stanford University had with DARPA and the Aerospace Corporation in 1998. The Aerospace Corporation wanted to launch a little satellite (picosat) the size of Klondike ice cream bar as part of a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) program. The graduate engineering students at Stanford that had been working on microsats since 1995 decided that it would be challenging to build a launcher for this little picosatellite. They designed a deployer that fit inside one of our microsatellites. The launcher was built like the cartridge holder for ...
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