Fiscal Year	2008
Division	Graduate School of Engineering & Applied Science
Department	Space Systems Academic Group
Investigator(s)	Panholzer, Rudolf Newman, James H.
Sponsor	National Reconnaissance Office (DoD)
Summary	This proposal seeks Phase II funding to build a flight unit solar cell tester as a follow-on to the on-going Phase I project funded by NRO AS&T to design and prototype a solar cell tester using a CubeSat platform. The on-going project is currently the M.S. thesis project for an NPS graduate student. This student is the "program manager" for the Phase I effort, whereby he is responsible for the project's budget, schedule, and deliverables. Two first year students also have signed up for directed studies to assist on the Phase I project, "working" for the student program manager. The CubeSat-Class satellite is beginning to provide NPS researchers and students with exciting, relatively short turnaround research projects in rapid-prototyping and low-cost flight testing of advanced materials and systems and other research payloads and for satellite engineering and operations. This proposal addresses the NRO Key Functional Capability (KFC) #6, innovative capabilities.
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