3UCubed: The IMAP Student Collaboration CubeSat Project
Marcus Alfred, Sonya Smith, Charles Kim, Carissma McGee, Ruth Davis,, Myles Pope, Taran Richardson, Trinity Sager, Avery Williams, Matthew Gales,, Wilson Jean Baptiste, Tyrese Kierstdet, Oluwatamilore Ogunbanjo, Laura, Peticolas, Lynn Cominsky, Garrett Jernigan, Jeffrey Reedy

TL;DR
The 3UCubed project is a collaborative effort among three universities to develop a 3U CubeSat for studying Earth's polar upper atmosphere and magnetospheric responses to solar wind, aiming for launch in 2025.
Contribution
This paper details the design, development, and collaborative approach of the 3UCubed CubeSat, a new student-led mission integrated with the NASA IMAP project.
Findings
Design and development of 3U CubeSat with two scientific instruments
Progress in engineering model testing and system integration
Scheduled launch around Solar Cycle 25 peak in 2025
Abstract
The 3UCubed project is a 3U CubeSat being jointly developed by the University of New Hampshire, Sonoma State University, and Howard University as a part of the NASA Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe, IMAP, student collaboration. This project comprises of a multidisciplinary team of undergraduate students from all three universities. The mission goal of the 3UCubed is to understand how Earths polar upper atmosphere the thermosphere in Earths auroral regions, responds to particle precipitation and solar wind forcing, and internal magnetospheric processes. 3UCubed includes two instruments with rocket heritage to achieve the science mission: an ultraviolet photomultiplier tube, UVPMT, and an electron retarding potential analyzer ERPA. The spacecraft bus consists of the following subsystems: Attitude Determination and Control, Command and Data Handling, Power, Communication,…
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Taxonomy
TopicsSpacecraft Design and Technology · Spacecraft and Cryogenic Technologies · Planetary Science and Exploration
