SBUDNIC was a 3U (one unit) CubeSat designed and built by an interdisciplinary group of undergraduate and graduate students at

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and the National Research Council of Italy, for research and educational purposes. The satellite was an

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project designed to be cheaply and easily reproduced, using

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parts like and

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and AA Energizer batteries. The project was financed by Brown's Undergraduate Finance Board, the National Research Council of Italy, and Rhode Island's NASA Space Grant Consortium. The satellite was deployed from D-Orbit's ION Satellite Carrier on the

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Falcon 9 Transporter 5 mission.

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