SBUDNIC was a 3U (one unit)

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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 an

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and AA

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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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Transporter 5 mission. The satellite decayed from orbit on 10 August 2023.

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