Lesson 1: Welcome to Mission 1! Your journey to explore space Space Space is Challenging: Empty and full (fast moving objects) Hot and Cold Radiation Far away Unknown lots to discover Why to go to Space? Remote sensing for agriculture Communications Weather forecasting How to explore space? Normal Satellites Can be large size of bus Can be expensive Multi-million to billions of dollars for interplanetary missions Usually has its own rocket for launching CubeSats Small cube 10cm on one side, usually weighs about 1kg Made of Off-The-Shelf electronics A full space launch of a CubeSat is very cheap! Piggy-backs on launch vehicles Your CubeSat: Mission 1 What will you discover about Space or Earth? How will you do that? Mission 1 CubeSat: Hardware: processor (brain)sensors (to sense) Software: Your Mission 1; have fun! How to design for Space? Space is a challenge: plan ahead Concurrent design process: