The open prototype for educational NanoSats: Fixing the other side of the small satellite cost equation

IEEE Aerospace Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages

  Berk, Josh ^a   Straub, Jeremy ^b   Whalen, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA   (United States)

^b University of North Dakota   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAD FILES; COST EQUATIONS; CUBESAT; DEVELOPMENT PLATFORM; PUBLIC DOMAINS; REFERENCE MATERIAL; SATELLITE BUILDINGS; SMALL-SATELLITE;

EDUCATION; LAUNCHING; NANOSATELLITES;

COST REDUCTION;

EID: 84878690866     PISSN: 1095323X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/AERO.2013.6497393     Document Type: Conference Paper

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