NASA Announces Candidates for Cubesat Space Missions

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News release: 2011-045 Feb. 9, 2011

NASA Announces Candidates for Cubesat Space Missions

The full version of this story with accompanying images is at:
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2011-045&cid=release_2011-045

PASADENA, Calif. — NASA has selected 20 small satellites, including two from NASA's Jet Propulsion
Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., to fly as auxiliary payloads aboard rockets planned to launch in 2011 and 2012.
The proposed CubeSats come from a high school in Virginia, universities across the country, NASA field centers
and Department of Defense organizations.

CubeSats are a class of research spacecraft called nanosatellites. The cube-shaped satellites are approximately
four inches long, have a volume of about one quart and weigh 2.2 pounds or less.

The selections are from the second round of the CubeSat Launch Initiative. The satellites are expected to conduct
technology demonstrations, educational or science research missions. The selected spacecraft are eligible for
flight after final negotiations when an opportunity arises.

The satellites come from the following organizations, which include the first high school proposal selected for a
CubeSat flight:

-- Air Force Research Lab, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio
-- Drexel University, Philadelphia
-- NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. (two CubeSats)
-- NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. (IPEX: Intelligent Payload Experiment, and LMRSat)
-- Naval Research Lab, Washington (two CubeSats)
-- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
-- Morehead State University, Morehead, Ky.
-- The Planetary Society, Pasadena, in partnership with NASA's Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif.
-- Space and Missile Defense Command, Huntsville, Ala.
-- St. Louis University, St. Louis, Mo.
-- Thomas Jefferson High School, Alexandria, Va.
-- University of Colorado
-- University of Hawaii
-- University of Louisiana, Lafayette
-- University of New Mexico
-- U.S. Military Academy
-- U.S. Naval Academy

The first CubeSats to be carried on an expendable vehicle for the agency's Launch Services Program will
comprise NASA's Educational Launch of Nanosatellite, or ELaNa, mission. ELaNa will fly on the Glory mission
scheduled to lift off on Feb. 23. The 12 CubeSat payloads selected from the first round of the CubeSat Launch
Initiative will have launch opportunities beginning later this year.

For more information about NASA's CubeSat Launch Initiative program:
http://www.nasa.gov/directorates/somd/home/CubeSats_initiative.html . For more about NASA and agency
programs: http://www.nasa.gov . The California Institute of Technology in Pasadena manages JPL for NASA.

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