E1.3 Four Decades of Educational Satellites: How to Run Student Space Programs
Symposium: E1. IAF SPACE EDUCATION AND OUTREACH SYMPOSIUM
Session: 3. On Track: Undergraduate Space Education
Day: Tuesday 15.10.2024
Time: 15:00 CEST
Room: Green Hall 1
As someone who has continually worked on academic small satellites since 1982, Prof. Twiggs has been known as the “Father of the CubeSat” as the co-developer, alongside Prof. Jordi Puig-Suari, of the CubeSat reference design and P-Pod Deployer for miniaturized satellites which has become the de-facto Industry Standard for smallsats with over 2,200 launched since 1998. Alongside the CubeSat, he was responsible for co-developing and promoting other original concepts such as the CricketSat, CanSat, ThinSat and the PocketQub for educational applications in space. Prof. Twiggs will provide a historical perspective of the development of the CubeSat concept and how it has found its place in the satellite community.