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3 CubeSats as a Tool for Education and Hands-on Training
Pages 28-32

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... Such a net increase of STEM graduates was one of the top recommendations of the 2010 report Rising Above the Gathering Storm, Revisited: Rapidly Approaching Category 5 and a matter of national competitiveness.2 One of the most challenging concepts to teach in aerospace engineering is the interdependent subsystems and systems that make a successful space mission. Even though there are textbooks3 on the issue, active engagement in system development is essential for a young scientist or engineer to understand how their work fits into a greater whole.
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... Furthermore, elementary school students can build a simple communication system with the Robert Twiggs' CricketSat development kit, originally designed to be flown as balloon experiments.5 EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROGRAMS U.S. Air Force One of the first education-focused satellite development programs was the University Nanosatellite Program (UNP)
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From page 30...
... dissertations  3 Graduate students  34 Master theses 20 All students 340 Journal publications  7 Faculty/advisors  16 Conference papers 56 Presentations and posters 75 SOURCE: Personal communication from David Voss, program manager, University Nanosatellite Program, to Thomas Zurbuchen, January 2016. National Science Foundation Since 2008, the NSF Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences has funded CubeSats (Figure 3.1)
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... NASA Approximately 60 percent of NASA-funded CubeSat programs also involve universities, often overlapping with the set of universities funded through AFRL or NSF. Although educational objectives are most often not primary to the NASA programs, both NASA program officials as well as participating institutions often name them as an essential outcome.
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... Furthermore, CubeSat programs provide training opportunities for young scientists and engineers in NASA centers and the industrial sector, similar to balloon and rocket programs. Conclusion: The teaching and training of satellite technology, engineering, and space science provided by CubeSat programs are of high educational and leadership training value to participating educational institutions and for early career scientists and engineers.
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