Bob Twiggs

Robert J. Twiggs
Bob Twiggs at the 2009 Summer CubeSat Developers' Workshop in Logan, Utah, United States
Born (1935-11-27) November 27, 1935 (age 88)
Blackfoot, Idaho, U.S.
Alma mater
Known for
Scientific career
FieldsAerospace engineering, Astronautics
Institutions

Robert J. Twiggs (born November 27, 1935) is an American professor of Astronautics and Space Science at Morehead State University.[1] He is responsible, along with Jordi Puig-Suari of California Polytechnic State University, for co-inventing the CubeSat reference design for miniaturized satellites[2][3] which became an Industry Standard for design and deployment of the satellites.[4][5]

  1. ^ "Robert J. Twiggs". Morehead State University. Retrieved 30 November 2017.
  2. ^ "Kentucky Space: Prof. Bob Twiggs: CubeSats make space more accessible". 2009-05-03.
  3. ^ "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.
  4. ^ "SEEDMAGAZINE.COM : Revolutionary Minds : The Game Changers : Bob Twiggs + Jordi Puig-Suari". 2009-05-03. Archived from the original on 2009-08-05. Retrieved 2009-05-03.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  5. ^ "Prof. Twiggs". 2009-05-03. Archived from the original on 2009-03-12.