Fiscal Year	2014
Division	Graduate School of Engineering & Applied Science
Department	Space Systems Academic Group
Investigator(s)	Newman, James H.
Sponsor	National Reconnaissance Office (DoD)
Summary	The ULTRASAT flight project is a follow-on to the successful OUTSat and GEMSat projects and builds on several student theses to implement a CubeSat launch system in flight hardware as part of the SSAG Small Satellite hands-on laboratory work. This proposal documents the funding required and the statement of work needed to continue work on an NPSCuL (NPS CubeSat Launcher) flight unit and perform associated activities as part of the ULTRASAT mission, in collaboration with the Office of Space Launch (OSL) and their Auxiliary Payload Integrating Contractor. ULTRASAT is currently scheduled to launch in late 2014 from Cape Canaveral as part of the AFSPC-5 mission. ULTRASAT will fly on an Aft Bulkhead Carrier (ABC) plate and will utilize NPSCuL and Cal Poly P-PODs to launch a significant volume of CubeSats, enabling OSL to efficiently launch US government and other CubeSats. Schedule permitting, a new, complex, isogrid version of NPSCuL may be qualified in time for ULTRASAT. The operational nature of the project and the lessons learned generate student thesis topics, the results of which feed back into more advanced versions of NPSCuL.
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