Jordi Puig-Suari

Jordi Puig-Suari is a professor and aerospace technology developer. He is the co-inventor of the CubeSat standard, and is currently co-founder of Tyvak Nano-Satellite Systems.[1]

Career

Puig-Suari is a professor at CalPoly,[2] and, as of 2009, had participated in five satellite development efforts and the launch of seven spacecraft missions.[3]

In 2011 Puig-Suari and Scott MacGillivray, former manager of nanosatellite programs for Boeing Phantom Works, established Tyvak Nano-Satellite Systems in San Luis Obispo, California, to sell miniature avionics packages for small satellites, with the goal to increase the volume available for payloads.[4]

CubeSats

Puig-Suari was the co-inventor of the CubeSat reference design, along with professor Bob Twiggs of Stanford University. Their goal was to enable graduate students to be able to design, build, test and operate in space a spacecraft with capabilities similar to that of the first spacecraft, Sputnik.[1]

Over time, the CubeSat design emerged as an Industry standard, widely "adopted by universities, companies and government agencies around the world."[1]

The first CubeSats were launched into low-Earth orbit in June 2003. As of August 2012, approximately 75 CubeSats have been placed into orbit, and the number is growing rapidly.[1]

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "Cubist Movement". Space News. 2012-08-13. p. 30. When professors Jordi Puig-Suari of California Polytechnic State University and Bob Twiggs of Stanford University invented the cubesat a little more than a decade ago, they never imagined that the tiny satellites would be adopted by universities, companies and government agencies around the world. They simply wanted to design a spacecraft with capabilities similar to Sputnik that graduate student could design, build, test and operate. For size, the professors settled on a 10-centimeter cube because it was large enough to accommodate a basic communications payload, solar panels and a battery.
  2. ↑ "Aerospace Engineering Faculty". Cal Poly. Retrieved 2012-09-30.
  3. ↑ "IAC2009". International Astronautical Federation. Retrieved 2012-09-30.
  4. ↑ Werner, Deborah (13 August 2012). "Builders Packing More Capability into Small Satellites".

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