Jordi Puig-Suari
Jordi Puig-Suari is a professor and aerospace technology developer. He is the co-inventor of the CubeSat standard, and is currently co-founder of Tyvak Nano-Satellite Systems.[1]
Career
Puig-Suari is a professor at CalPoly,[2] and, as of 2009[update], had participated in five satellite development efforts and the launch of seven spacecraft missions.[3]
In 2011 Puig-Suari and Scott MacGillivray, former manager of nanosatellite programs for Boeing Phantom Works, established Tyvak Nano-Satellite Systems in San Luis Obispo, California, to sell miniature avionics packages for small satellites, with the goal to increase the volume available for payloads.[4]
CubeSats
Puig-Suari was the co-inventor of the CubeSat reference design[when?], along with professor Bob Twiggs of Stanford University. Their goal was to enable graduate students to be able to design, build, test and operate in space a spacecraft with capabilities similar to that of the first spacecraft, Sputnik.[1]
Over time, the CubeSat design emerged as an Industry standard, widely "adopted by universities, companies and government agencies around the world."[1]
The first CubeSats were launched into low-Earth orbit in June 2003. As of August 2012[update], approximately 75 CubeSats have been placed into orbit, and the number is growing rapidly.[1]
See also
References
- ^ a b c d
"Cubist Movement". Space News. 2012-08-13. p. 30.
When professors Jordi Puig-Suari of California Polytechnic State University and Bob Twiggs of Stanford University invented the cubesat a little more than a decade ago, they never imagined that the tiny satellites would be adopted by universities, companies and government agencies around the world. They simply wanted to design a spacecraft with capabilities similar to Sputnik that graduate student could design, build, test and operate. For size, the professors settled on a 10-centimeter cube because it was large enough to accommodate a basic communications payload, solar panels and a battery.
- ^ "Aerospace Engineering Faculty". Cal Poly. Retrieved 2012-09-30.
- ^ "IAC2009". International Astronautical Federation. Retrieved 2012-09-30.
- ^ Werner, Deborah (13 August 2012). "Builders Packing More Capability into Small Satellites".
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