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Cubesat Deployable Solar Panel System, Thomas Mcguire, Skye Leake, Michael Parsons, Michael Hirsch, Benjamin Kading, Jeremy Straub, David Whalen
Cubesat Deployable Solar Panel System, Thomas Mcguire, Skye Leake, Michael Parsons, Michael Hirsch, Benjamin Kading, Jeremy Straub, David Whalen
Jeremy Straub
CubeSats are small spacecraft with a nominal size of 10 cm x 10 cm x 10 cm and a mass of 1.33 kg [1] (though some launch providers are now supporting expanded mass levels). While the CubeSat form factor has re-duced the time and cost of spacecraft development, the required resources are still beyond the grasp of many colleges and universities. The Open Prototype for Educational Nanosats (OPEN) aims to solve this problem. OPEN is an inexpen-sive modular CubeSat that can be produced with a parts budget of less than $5,000 [2]. The OpenOrbiter pro-gram is working to develop this …