Bart LeahyApril 21st ORLANDO, Fla. — Adrienne Dove, a University of Central Florida (UCF) planetary scientist, physicist, and associate professor, capped off the university's 2018 Distinguished Speaker series with a talk
about CubeSats and UCF's involvement with CubeSat - based science missions.
Not exact matches
In 2003, the first six student projects rode a Russian Eurockot into orbit, for
about $ 30,000 a pop; early on, the biggest single expense was the ride, though in recent years, launch prices have stayed put around $ 100,000 for a 1U
CubeSat.
If each mirror segment of GOAT is an autonomous hexagonal spacecraft 10 centimeters wide and 6 kilograms in mass —
about the size of
CubeSats now regularly deployed in orbit — the researchers envision
about 14,000 segments are needed.