SASSI2 (Student Aerothermal Spectrometer Satellite of Illinois and Indiana)
Purdue University
CubeSat developed by Purdue's CubeSat Lab to characterize bow-shock flow and radiation during high-speed atmospheric flight.
Technical specifications
- Form factor
- CubeSat (Purdue CubeSat Lab standard bus)
- Mission focus
- Bow-shock flow and radiation characterization during high-speed atmospheric flight
- Program
- Purdue CubeSat Lab, School of Aeronautics and Astronautics
- Sponsor
- NASA / Air Force Research Laboratory University Nanosat Program
About
SASSI2 is a CubeSat mission developed by Purdue University’s CubeSat Lab within the School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, run as a Design-Build-Test Vertically Integrated Project. The mission is designed to characterize the flow field and radiation generated by the diffuse bow shock formed during high-speed flight through the upper atmosphere, providing flight data relevant to hypersonic and re-entry aerothermodynamics. SASSI2 is one of several active missions from Purdue’s CubeSat Lab, alongside APEx (a pulsed magnetoplasmadynamic thruster technology demonstrator), the Aerodynamic Deorbit Experiment (ADE), and FEMTA, a MEMS-based tunable thruster array — all developed by undergraduate and graduate students as part of Purdue’s long-running small-satellite design-build-test program.
Documentation
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