Colorado Student Space Weather Experiment

Colorado Student Space Weather Experiment (CSSWE) was the sixth[when?] <a href="/facts/National_Science_Foundation/FlDT8TbW">National Science Foundation</a> sponsored <a href="/facts/CubeSat/jL2IpYKd">CubeSat</a> mission. It was built by students at the <a href="/facts/University_of_Colorado_at_Boulder/SzsmJFb7">University of Colorado at Boulder</a> with advising from professionals at the <a href="/facts/Laboratory_for_Atmospheric_and_Space_Physics/kQahawcE">Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics</a>. The CSSWE mission was a joint effort by the University of Colorado's Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences and <a href="/facts/Laboratory_for_Atmospheric_and_Space_Physics/kQahawcE">Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics</a>. The mission principal investigator was Prof. Xinlin Li, and the Co-PIs are Prof. Scott Palo and Dr. Shri Kanekal. The project manager for the project was Dr. Lauren Blum, the system engineer was Dr. David Gerhardt, and the instrument scientist was Dr. Quintin Schiller.
CSSWE launched on September 13, 2012, on an <a href="/facts/Atlas_V/5SNgegyt">Atlas V</a> rocket by the <a href="/facts/United_Launch_Alliance/yWev1ndb">United Launch Alliance</a> on <a href="/facts/Launch_Services_Program/sUJToucI">ELaNa</a>-VI as part of the <a href="/facts/NASA/TIMCV0yV">NASA</a>'s CubeSat Launch Initiative (CSLI). The CSSWE team released its science products to the public for download on NASA's Coordinated Data Analysis Web Site (CDAWeb).
As of December 22, 2014, CSSWE showed severe battery degradation, likely due to pushing the battery thousands of cycles beyond the battery's design specs. As a result, CSSWE cannot retain enough power to receive or transmit data.

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Colorado Student Space Weather Experiment