CUTE
(Colorado Ultraviolet Transit Experiment)
(CubeSat ultraviolet space telescope)
CUTE (for Colorado Ultraviolet Transit Experiment)
is an ultraviolet space telescope launched in Fall 2021
consisting of a spectrograph on a 20×8 cm
Cassegrain reflector packaged in a 6-unit CubeSat
(30 cm × 20 cm × 10 cm). Its purpose is to carry out
transmission spectroscopy within the 255-330 nanometer wavelength
range, aiming to determine mass loss rates of
extra-solar planet atmospheres (atmospheric escape).
It is an example of the notion of deploying a very small,
inexpensive satellite customized for specific research.
(spacecraft,ultraviolet,telescope)
Further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado_Ultraviolet_Transit_Experiment
https://lasp.colorado.edu/home/cute/
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2023AJ....165...63F/abstract
https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/cute.htm
https://icubesat.files.wordpress.com/2019/05/b.1.1.201905201536-fossati.pdf
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2021/tiny-satellites-will-address-sizeable-questions-in-space-science
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2018JATIS...4a4004F/abstract
Referenced by page:
ultraviolet astronomy
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