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CubeSat for Solar Particles
.jpg) The CuSP Team delivers the Cubesat to NASA's Kennedy Space Center. Shown are (left to right) Mike Epperly, Project Manager, Don George, Mission Engineer, and Chad Loeffler, Flight Software Engineer. | |
| Names | CuSP |
|---|---|
| Mission type | Technology demonstration, Space Weather |
| Operator | Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) |
| Mission duration | 81 minutes 6 seconds |
| Spacecraft properties | |
| Spacecraft | CubeSat |
| Spacecraft type | 6U CubeSat |
| Bus | SwRI Custom Design |
| Manufacturer | Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) |
| Launch mass | 10.2 kg (22 lb) |
| Dimensions | 10 cm × 20 cm × 30 cm |
| Power | 45.46 watts |
| Start of mission | |
| Launch date | 16 November 2022, 06:47:44 UTC[1] |
| Rocket | SLS Block 1 |
| Launch site | KSC, LC-39B |
| Contractor | NASA |
| End of mission | |
| Last contact | 16 November 2022 |
| Orbital parameters | |
| Reference system | Heliocentric orbit |
| Flyby of Moon | |
| Instruments | |
| Suprathermal Ion Spectrograph (SIS) Miniaturized Electron and Proton Telescope (MERiT) Vector Helium Magnetometer (VHM) | |
CubeSat for Solar Particles (CuSP) was a low-cost 6U CubeSat to orbit the Sun to study the dynamic particles and magnetic fields.[2][3] The principal investigator for CuSP is Mihir Desai, at the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) in San Antonio, Texas.[2] It was launched on the maiden flight of the Space Launch System (SLS), as a secondary payload of the Artemis 1 mission on 16 November 2022.[1][4]
Following deployment from the Artemis launch adaptor, contact with the spacecraft showed that it successfully stabilized and deployed its solar arrays, but contact was lost after about an hour.[5]
- ^ a b Roulette, Joey; Gorman, Steve (16 November 2022). "NASA's next-generation Artemis mission heads to moon on debut test flight". Reuters. Retrieved 16 November 2022.
- ^ a b "Heliophysics CubeSat to Launch on NASAs SLS". NASA. 2 February 2016. Retrieved 9 March 2021.
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- ^ Messier, Doug (5 February 2016). "SwRI CubeSat to Explore Deep Space". Parabolic ARC. Retrieved 9 March 2021.
- ^ Harbaugh, Jennifer (23 July 2021). "Artemis I CubeSats will study the Moon, solar radiation". NASA. Retrieved 22 October 2021.
- ^ Interrante, Abbey (8 December 2022). "Artemis I Payload CuSP CubeSat Mission Update". NASA. Retrieved 26 May 2024.
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