Robert J. Twiggs | |
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 Bob Twiggs at the 2009 Summer CubeSat Developers' Workshop in Logan, Utah, United States | |
| Born | November 27, 1935 Blackfoot, Idaho, U.S. |
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| Fields | Aerospace engineering, Astronautics |
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Robert J. Twiggs (born November 27, 1935) is an American professor of Astronautics and Space Science at Morehead State University.[1] He is responsible, along with Jordi Puig-Suari of California Polytechnic State University, for co-inventing the CubeSat reference design for miniaturized satellites[2][3] which became an Industry Standard for design and deployment of the satellites.[4][5]
- ^ "Robert J. Twiggs". Morehead State University. Retrieved 30 November 2017.
- ^ "Kentucky Space: Prof. Bob Twiggs: CubeSats make space more accessible". 2009-05-03.
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"Cubist Movement". Space News. 2012-08-13. p. 30.
When professors Jordi Puig-Suari of California Polytechnic State University and Bob Twiggs of Stanford University invented the cubesat a little more than a decade ago, they never imagined that the tiny satellites would be adopted by universities, companies and government agencies around the world. They simply wanted to design a spacecraft with capabilities similar to Sputnik that graduate student could design, build, test and operate. For size, the professors settled on a 10-centimeter cube because it was large enough to accommodate a basic communications payload, solar panels and a battery.
- ^ "SEEDMAGAZINE.COM : Revolutionary Minds : The Game Changers : Bob Twiggs + Jordi Puig-Suari". 2009-05-03. Archived from the original on 2009-08-05. Retrieved 2009-05-03.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ "Prof. Twiggs". 2009-05-03. Archived from the original on 2009-03-12.