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Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland 20771

ENGINEERING COLLOQUIUM

Monday, December 5, 2016 / 3:30 PM, Building 3 Auditorium

photo of Allison Evans

Allison Evans

"CubeSats: Smaller Technology, Broader Horizons"

ABSTRACT -- CubeSats are fast becoming a popular way to get low cost, risk tolerant missions into space. Beginning as a teaching tool for universities, the CubeSat platform now supports cutting edge science and new, miniaturized technologies. Here at Goddard we are using CubeSats in several areas of research and defining how to use the CubeSat platform to collect significant data about our planet, the solar system, and beyond. This colloquium talk will cover CubeSats’ past and current use, with a look at where they might be headed in the future.

SPEAKER -- Allison Evans is an aerospace engineer in the Components and Hardware branch at NASA Goddard. She has worked on several CubeSat missions, including CeRES, Firefly, and Dellingr and has developed new passive thermal technology for CubeSats. In her non-CubeSat work she has contributed to STP-H5, SpaceCube, and the BETTII balloon mission. Allison got her Bachelor’s degree in aerospace engineering from West Virginia University and her Master’s in the same from the Georgia Institute of Technology.




Engineering Colloquium home page: https://ecolloq.gsfc.nasa.gov