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Swenson, Gary R. Thakker, Purvesh B. 2015-09-25T20:09:40Z 2015-09-25T20:09:40Z 10000-01-01 2008 2008 Understanding the dynamics and energy transfer within the atmosphere is important for a broad range of applications including communication, navigation, space travel, weather, and climate change. However, space weather research is currently limited by a lack of essential space measurements. Access to space has not been low cost. The Illinois Observing Nanosatellite (ION) represents an innovative approach to acquiring some critical measurements. ION incorporates remote sensing capabilities built by students as part of the CubeSat program (1 to 3 kg satellites) using a set of guidelines tailored to a university educational environment. The recent rapid increase in CubeSat launches (32 launched, 18 in space as of 2007) combined with scientific measurement demonstrations has given atmospheric researchers hope that university satellites can help fill measurement needs. The results of this work demonstrate that university satellites, including CubeSats, offer the potential for harvesting a great breadth of atmospheric data, while simultaneously advancing space technology and educating the next generation of spacecraft engineers. Made available in DSpace on 2015-09-25T20:09:40Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license.txt: 4848 bytes, checksum: 96035ab3f5e1c23cc7138a224ce498bd (MD5) 3347577.pdf: 8747133 bytes, checksum: 63ce32178859d64e2db1afbf3ee7c674 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008 Embargo set by: Seth Robbins for item 82404 Lift date: Forever Reason: Restricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETDs Restricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETDs U of I Only 154 p. Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2142/81122 (MiAaPQ)AAI3347577 eng Engineering, Aerospace Development of a Small University Satellite for Performing a Global Survey of Gravity Waves in the Mesosphere text Electrical and Computer Engineering Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dissertation Ph.D.