Development of the Tropospheric Water Vapor and Cloud ICE (TWICE) Millimeter- and Sub-millimeter Wave Radiometer Instrument for 6U-Class Nanosatellites

Steven C Reising1, Pekka Kangaslahti2, Erich Schlecht3, Xavier Bosch-Lluis1, Mehmet Ogut4, Sharmila Padmanabhan3, Richard Cofield5, Nacer Eddine Chahat3, Shannon Thomas Brown2, Jonathan H. Jiang6, William Deal7, Alex Zamora8, Kevin Leong8, Sean Shih8 and Gerry Mei8, (1)Colorado State University, Microwave Systems Laboratory, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (2)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, (3)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (4)Colorado State University, Microwave Systems Laboratory, Fort Collins, United States, (5)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, (6)California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (7)Northrop Grumman Corporation Redondo Beach, Redondo Beach, United States, (8)Northrop Grumman Corporation Redondo Beach, Redondo Beach, CA, United States