OpenOrbiter: A low-cost, educational prototype CubeSat mission architecture

Machines

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Straub, Jeremy ^a   Korvald, Christoffer ^a   Nervold, Anders ^b   Mohammad, Atif ^a   Root, Noah ^a   Long, Nicholas ^b   Torgerson, Donovan ^a  

^a University of North Dakota   (United States)

^b Department of Entrepreneurship ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

CubeSat; Educational NanoSat; Mission design; Open hardware designs; Open source software; Small spacecraft

Indexed keywords

EID: 84881128443     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20751702     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/mach1010001     Document Type: Article

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