Rocketry and Observability Predictions for Cubesat

Authors

Juliano A. Everett, CUNY New York City College of TechnologyFollow

Document Type

Report

Publication Date

8-2019

Abstract

Estimating the visibility of Sunlight reflected by the holographic retro-reflector of Cubesat Alpha, and to convert this to star apparent magnitude to learn more about the visibility of these sails through reflected sunlight, to in turn determine if glints of these holograms are visible by terrestrial observers.

Comments

Written and then presented for a 2019 Summer internship at the Flatiron. Under Supervision of Prof. Viviana Acquaviva (Physics). Mentor: Prof. Gregory Matloff (Physics).