FB1  Small Satellite Radio Science and Technology

Thursday, January 9  13:20-17:00  Room 1B12

Session Chairs:  William Blackwell, Reyhan Baktur

13:20  FB1-1  A 6U CUBESAT CONSTELLATION CONCEPT FOR ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE AND HUMIDITY SOUNDING

Sharmila Padmanabhan*, Shannon Brown, Pekka Kangaslahti, Boon Lim, Damon Russell, Richard Cofield, Robert Stachnik

NASA JPL/Caltech, Pasadena, CA


13:40  FB1-2  THE MICROMAS CUBESAT MISSION: DEMONSTRATION OF A CORE ELEMENT OF ATMOSPHERIC CONSTELLATION SENSING

William Blackwell*1, Idahosa Osaretin1, R. V. Leslie1, Kerri Cahoy2, Neal Erickson3

1MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA
2MIT Space Systems Laboratory, Cambridge, MA
3University of Massachusetts-Amherst, Amherst, MA


14:00  FB1-3  SUPPORTING COMMUNICATION NEEDS OF CUBESAT CONSTELLATION MISSIONS

Charles M. Swenson*1, Jacob Gunther1, Chad Fish2

1Electrical and Computer Engineering, Utah State University, Logan, Utah
2Utah State University Space Dynamics Laboratory, North Logan, Utah


14:20  FB1-4  THE RADIOMETER ATMOSPHERIC CUBESAT EXPERIMENT PAYLOAD: PRE-FLIGHT INTEGRATION AND TEST RESULTS

Boon Lim*

JPL, Pasadena


14:40  FB1-5  MILLIMETER AND SUBMILLIMETER WAVE REMOTE SENSING USING SMALL SATELLITES

Negar Ehsan*, Dong Wu, Paul Racette, Jaime Esper, Jeffrey Piepmeier

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD


15:20  FB1-6  DESIGN OF HIGH PRECISION LENS OR REFLECTOR ANTENNA SYSTEMS FOR CUBESAT MMW/ SMMW RADIOMETERS

Lavanya Periasamy*, Albin J. Gasiewski

(1) Department of Electrical, Computer & Energy Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder, Boulder, Colorado


15:40  FB1-7  EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ON THE EFFECT BETWEEN COMMERCIAL SPACE SOLAR CELLS AND THE ANTENNAS INTEGRATED ON THEIR COVER GLASS

Taha Shahvirdi dizaj yekan*, Reyhan Baktur

Utah State University, logan


16:00  FB1-8  UHF DEPLOYABLE ANTENNA STRUCTURES FOR CUBESATS

Joseph Costantine1, Youssef Tawk2, Firas Ayoub2, Christos G. Christodoulou*2, Gina M. Olson3, Sergio Pellegrino3

1Electrical Engineering Department, California State University Fullerton, Fullerton, CA 92834
2Configurable Space Microsystems Innovations and Applications Center (COSMIAC), The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131
3Graduate Aerospace Laboratories, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125


16:20  FB1-9  MEASUREMENT OF LOWER THERMOSPHERE USING THE OPTICAL PROFILING OF THE ATMOSPHERIC LIMB (OPAL) CUBESAT EXPERIMENT

Padmashri Suresh*, Charles M. Swenson

Electrical and Computer Engineering, Utah State University, Logan, Utah


16:40  FB1-10  DEVELOPMENT OF SILICON-GERMANIUM CIRCUITS FOR HIGH-FREQUENCY SMALL SATELLITE-BASED RADIOMETERS

Christopher T. Coen*, A. Ҫağrı Ulusoy, Robert L. Schmid, John D. Cressler

School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA