AubieSat-1 (

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-71) is a

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designed, built, and tested by undergraduate

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. It was launched from

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October 28, 2011 atop a

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. This was a multi-payload mission with five other CubeSats,

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, DICE-1, DICE-2, Explorer-1_Prime and

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Purpose

The purpose of AubieSat-1 was to accomplish several things: * Establish

as a

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capable of developing satellites. * Provide workforce applicable experience for students. * Study and compare the effects of

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coatings. * Demonstrate a system bus that could be used at the baseline design for additional satellites later developed by the program.

References

External links

AubieSat-1 Website
CubeSats Spacecraft launched in 2011 {{US-spacecraft-stub