EAGER: Ideas Lab: CubeSat Innovations

该项目将支持一个互动研讨会，以促进创新思想的产生，以推进基于立方体卫星的地球空间环境科学调查。立方体卫星创意实验室研讨会将汇集来自地球空间和各种工程学科的研究人员，组成跨学科团队，并为构建具有成本效益的星座或10-100个立方体卫星群开发创新想法。研讨会还将讨论利用立方体卫星进行教育、培训和发展跨学科劳动力的方法。立方体卫星代表了在空间科学、天文学、地球科学、机械和航空航天工程等众多学科中追求天基研究的日益增长的趋势。该项目将组织一个创意实验室，以开发有可能显著推进立方体卫星技术和科学最新发展的创新想法。创意实验室的过程在吸引来自不同学科的科学家和利益相关者参与创新科学努力方面有着良好的记录。这个创意实验室将汇集来自地球空间和从事立方体卫星研究的各种工程学科的研究人员，组成跨学科团队，目标是开发创新和变革性的想法，最终将作为完整的提案提交。该创意实验室提出的建议概念将解决构建具有成本效益的星座或10-100颗立方体卫星群用于地球空间调查的关键挑战。创意实验室将支持整合来自多个领域的变革性创意；从硬件到软件再到应用程序。在这个创意实验室中开发的设计概念也将解决利用立方体卫星进行教育、培训和培养跨学科劳动力的方法。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This project will support an interactive workshop to facilitate generation of innovative ideas to advance CubeSat-based science investigations of the geospace environment. The CubeSat Ideas Lab workshop will bring together researchers from the geospace and various engineering disciplines to form interdisciplinary teams and develop innovative ideas for building cost-effective constellations or swarms of 10-100 CubeSats. The workshop will also address approaches in utilizing CubeSats for educating, training, and developing a cross-disciplinary workforce.CubeSats represent an increasing trend towards pursuing space-based research in a multitude of disciplines, including Space Science, Astronomy, Earth Science, and Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. This project will organize an Ideas Lab to develop innovative ideas that have the potential to significantly advance the state-of-the-art in CubeSat technology and science. The Ideas Lab process has a proven track record of engaging scientists and stakeholders from across disciplines in the creation of innovative scientific endeavors. This Ideas Lab will bring together researchers from the geospace and various engineering disciplines engaged in CubeSat research to form interdisciplinary teams with the goal of developing innovative and transformative ideas that will eventually be submitted as full proposals. The proposal concepts developed at this Ideas Lab will address key challenges in building cost-effective constellations or swarms of 10-100 CubeSats for geospace investigations. The Ideas Lab will support integration of transformative ideas from several domains; from hardware to software to applications. Design concepts developed in this Ideas Lab will also address approaches in utilizing CubeSats for educating, training, and developing a cross-disciplinary workforce.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.