Subsystems
SSRL History
Friends of SSRL
Acronyms
Fun Facts
100

This subsystem powers the spacecraft

What is EPS?

100

This is Demoz's most recent injury

What is a fractured arm?

100

This friend is the funding agency for EXACT

What is UNP?

100

DitL

What is "Day in the Life"?

100

This is the spacecraft from which IMPRESS will be launched

What is the ISS?

200

This subsystem orients the spacecraft 

What is ADCS?

200

This is the previous CubeSat launched by the SSRL

What is SOCRATES?

200

This friend is the supplier of the CubeSat's battery

What is Space Inventor?

200

EXACT

What is "Experiment for X-ray Navigation, Characterization, and Timing"?

200

This is the location of the SOCRATES engineering model

What is Tate Hall?

300

This subsystem shall draw no power

What is Structures?

300

This is the floor of Shepherd Labs that the previous SSRL lab occupied

What is the second floor?

300

This friend is the provider of the COMS (ground station, patch, etc)

What is The Aerospace Corporation?

300

IMPRESS

What is "IMpulsive Phase Rapid Energetic Solar Spectrometer"?

300

This member of the executive team used to be a professional ballerina

Who is Lindsay Glesener?

400

This subsystem works closest with MSU

What is Detector?

400

This is the newest subteam created within SSRL

What is QA?

400

This friend is the deployer for IMPRESS

What is Nanoracks and/or CSLI?

400

HaFX

What is "Hard and Fast X-Ray Detector"?

400

These are the CubeSats Mel has worked on in the SSRL

What are HyCube, SOCRATES, EXACT, and IMPRESS?

500

This subsystem conducts tests in the Washington Ave Parking Ramp

What is COMS

500

This is the first CubeSat launched by the SSRL

What is GoldenEye?

500

These friends are collaborators of the UMN SSRL 

Who are MSU, UCSC, SWRI, and CU Boulder?

500

TLOSA

What is "Target Line of Sight Acquisition"?

500

This was the total length of the recent Interim Design Review

How long is 12 hours?

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