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[update], 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[when?], 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[update], approximately 75 CubeSats have been placed into orbit, and the number is growing rapidly.[1]
See also
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