The CuSP Team delivers the Cubesat to NASA's Kennedy Space Center. Shown are (left to right) Mike Epperly, Project Manager, Don George, Mission Engineer, and Chad Loeffler, Flight Software Engineer.
Names
CuSP
Mission type
Technology demonstration, reconnaissance, Space Weather
Operator
Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)
Mission duration
81 minutes 6 seconds
Spacecraft properties
Spacecraft
CubeSat
Spacecraft type
6U CubeSat
Bus
SwRI Custom Design
Manufacturer
Southwest Research Institute (SwRI)
Launch mass
10.2 kg (22 lb)
Dimensions
10 cm × 20 cm × 30 cm
Power
45.46 watts
Start of mission
Launch date
16 November 2022, 06:47:44 UTC[1]
Rocket
SLS Block 1
Launch site
KSC, LC-39B
Contractor
NASA
End of mission
Last contact
16 November 2022
Orbital parameters
Reference system
Heliocentric orbit
Flyby of Moon
Instruments
Suprathermal Ion Spectrograph (SIS) Miniaturized Electron and Proton Telescope (MERiT) Vector Helium Magnetometer (VHM)
CubeSat for Solar Particles (CuSP) was a low-cost 6U CubeSat to orbit the Sun to study the dynamic particles and magnetic fields.[2][3] The principal investigator for CuSP is Mihir Desai, at the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) in San Antonio, Texas.[2] It was launched on the maiden flight of the Space Launch System (SLS), as a secondary payload of the Artemis 1 mission on 16 November 2022.[1][4]
Following deployment from the Artemis launch adaptor, contact with the spacecraft showed that it successfully stabilized and deployed its solar arrays, but contact was long after about an hour.[5]
^ abRoulette, Joey; Gorman, Steve (16 November 2022). "NASA's next-generation Artemis mission heads to moon on debut test flight". Reuters. Retrieved 16 November 2022.
^ ab"Heliophysics CubeSat to Launch on NASAs SLS". NASA. 2 February 2016. Retrieved 9 March 2021. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
^Messier, Doug (5 February 2016). "SwRI CubeSat to Explore Deep Space". Parabolic ARC. Retrieved 9 March 2021.
^Harbaugh, Jennifer (23 July 2021). "Artemis I CubeSats will study the Moon, solar radiation". NASA. Retrieved 22 October 2021.
^Interrante, Abbey (8 December 2022). "Artemis I Payload CuSP CubeSat Mission Update". NASA. Retrieved 26 May 2024.
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