.jpg) The CuSP Team delivers the Cubesat to NASA's Kennedy Space Center. Shown are (left to right) Mike Epperly, Project Manager, Don George, Mission Engineer, and Chad Loeffler, Flight Software Engineer. | |
| Names | CuSP |
|---|---|
| Mission type | Technology demonstration, Space Weather |
| Operator | Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) |
| Mission duration | 81 minutes 6 seconds |
| Spacecraft properties | |
| Spacecraft | CubeSat |
| Spacecraft type | 6U CubeSat |
| Bus | SwRI Custom Design |
| Manufacturer | Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) |
| Launch mass | 10.2 kg (22 lb) |
| Dimensions | 10 cm × 20 cm × 30 cm |
| Power | 45.46 watts |
| Start of mission | |
| Launch date | 16 November 2022, 06:47:44 UTC[1] |
| Rocket | SLS Block 1 |
| Launch site | KSC, LC-39B |
| Contractor | NASA |
| End of mission | |
| Last contact | 16 November 2022 |
| Orbital parameters | |
| Reference system | Heliocentric orbit |
| Flyby of Moon | |
| Instruments | |
| Suprathermal Ion Spectrograph (SIS) Miniaturized Electron and Proton Telescope (MERiT) Vector Helium Magnetometer (VHM) | |
CubeSat for Solar Particles (CuSP) was a low-cost 6U CubeSat to orbit the Sun to study the dynamic particles and magnetic fields.[2][3] The principal investigator for CuSP is Mihir Desai, at the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) in San Antonio, Texas.[2] It was launched on the maiden flight of the Space Launch System (SLS), as a secondary payload of the Artemis 1 mission on 16 November 2022.[1][4]
Following deployment from the Artemis launch adaptor, contact with the spacecraft showed that it successfully stabilized and deployed its solar arrays, but contact was lost after about an hour.[5]
- ^ a b Roulette, Joey; Gorman, Steve (16 November 2022). "NASA's next-generation Artemis mission heads to moon on debut test flight". Reuters. Retrieved 16 November 2022.
- ^ a b "Heliophysics CubeSat to Launch on NASAs SLS". NASA. 2 February 2016. Retrieved 9 March 2021.
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- ^ Messier, Doug (5 February 2016). "SwRI CubeSat to Explore Deep Space". Parabolic ARC. Retrieved 9 March 2021.
- ^ Harbaugh, Jennifer (23 July 2021). "Artemis I CubeSats will study the Moon, solar radiation". NASA. Retrieved 22 October 2021.
- ^ Interrante, Abbey (8 December 2022). "Artemis I Payload CuSP CubeSat Mission Update". NASA. Retrieved 26 May 2024.
