Leveraging CubeSat Technology to Address Nighttime Imagery Requirements over the Arctic

John James Pereira1, Daniel Mamula1, Margaret Caulfield1, Frank W. Gallagher III2, David Spencer1, Eugene M Petrescu3, Joanne Ostroy4, Dee W. Pack5 and Anthony LaRosa6, (1)NOAA National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service, Silver Spring, MD, United States, (2)NOAA National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service, OSAAP, Silver Spring, MD, United States, (3)NOAA Anchorage, Anchorage, AK, United States, (4)Aerospace Corporation, Silver Spring, MD, United States, (5)The Aerospace Corporation El Segundo, El Segundo, CA, United States, (6)Riverside Technologies Inc., Silver Spring, MD, United States