A Dedicated Ultraviolet CubeSat for Astrophysics, SPARCS (Star Planet Activity Research CubeSat)


Evgenya L Shkolnik1, David R. Ardila2, Travis Barman3, Matthew Beasley4, Bowman Judd5, Varoujan Gorjianb6, Daniel Jacobs5, April Jewell6, Joe Llama7, Mary Knapp8, Victoria Suzanne Meadows9, Shouleh Nikzad10, Connie Spittler11, Mark Swain12, Robert Zellem6 and Sarah Peacock13, (1)Arizona State University, School of Earth and Space Exploration, Tempe, United States, (2)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)University of Arizona, Tucson, United States, (4)Southwest Research Institute Boulder, Boulder, United States, (5)Arizona State University, Tempe, United States, (6)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, (7)Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, United States, (8)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States, (9)SETI Institute, Seattle, United States, (10)JPL/Caltech, Pasadena, United States, (11)Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, United States, (12)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (13)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States