Geocentric Heliogyro Operational Solar-Sail Technology

GHOST: design, build, and test a heliogyro solar sail deployment and pitching mechanism packaged into a CubeSat of up to 12U and capable of deploying and pitching adequately sized solar sail blades to provide a characteristic acceleration of 0.1 mm/s2.

Project Sponsor: 
Customer: Keats Wilkie
Project Advisors:  
Project Manager: Mark Dolezal  

Team Members: Nicholas Busbey, Mark Dolezal, Casey Myeres, Lauren Persons, Emily Proano, Megan Scheele, Taylor Smith, Karyanna Tuan 

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