RAPID: Organizational Support and Planning for QB50

这是一项短期（不到一年）的努力，旨在组织和计划美国在QB 50计划中的广泛参与和影响，QB 50计划是一个同时建造，发射和飞行50颗立方体卫星的国际联盟。 一个美国协调委员会已经成立，以领导这项工作，具有广泛的专业知识代表性，并与QB 50计划组织有密切的联系。 这项工作的一个具体成果将是一份概述美国参与计划的报告，包括美国组织打算提供的CubeSats的描述，美国机构的参与包和指导方针，没有卫星计划的高中和大学的易于使用的参与计划，以及参与欧盟领导的卫星计划的政策障碍和计划。广泛的美国社区的投入，兴趣和参与将通过社区研讨会正在进行作为这项活动的一部分。

This is a short term (less than one-year) effort to organize and plan broad US participation and influence in the QB50 program, an international consortium to build, launch and fly 50 CubeSats simultaneously. A US Coordination Committee has been established to lead the effort with widespread representation of expertise and with strong links to the QB50 program organization. A specific product of the effort will be a report outlining a US participation plan, including descriptions of the CubeSats US organizations intend to provide, a participation packet and guidelines for US institutions, an easy to use participation program for high schools and colleges that don't have satellite programs, and policy hurdles and plan for participation in a EU led satellite program. Broad US community input, interest, and participation will be sought through a community workshop being conducted as part of this activity.