Alpha Cubesat Publications

The Path to Flight: Integration & Testing Updates from the Alpha CubeSat Mission

Published: 2025 | Research Paper | Apurva Hanwadikar, Italivi Diaz, Adiba Sajed, Cion Kim, Langston Johnson, Verena Padres, Damian Hackett, Joshua Umansky-Castro, Andrew Filo and Alex Burke

Alpha ChipSat Design Paper (2025)

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COTS Implementation of Magnetorquer-Only CubeSat Spin Stabilization

Published: 2025 | Research Paper | Joshua Umansky-Castro, Deemo Chen, Om Deshmukh, Haonan Gong, Nicholas Natsoulas, Mason Peck, Andrew Filo and Alex Burke

Alpha ACS Implementation Paper (2025)

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Gram-Scale ChipSat Spacecraft for Light Sailing in LEO

Published: 2021 | Research Paper | Joshua Umansky-Castro, Matthew Hurford, Corbin Heywood, Grace Tang, Cameron Goddard, Jonathan Ma, Apurva Hanwadikar, Mason Peck, Andrew Filo and Alex Burke

Alpha ChipSat Design Paper (2025)

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The Maker's CubeSat: Increasing Student-lab Capabilities in the Design, Integration & Test of the Alpha CubeSat

Published: 2022 | Research Paper | Joshua Umansky-Castro, Yaw Tung Tan, Eleanor Glenn, Lauren Greenhill, Jenny Wen, Mason Peck, Andrew Filo and Alex Burke

Alpha CubeSat I&T Paper (2022)

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Magnetorquer-only Nonlinear Attitude Control for CubeSats

Published: 2021 | Research Paper | Davide Carabellese, Joshua S. Umansky-Castro and Mason A. Peck

Alpha Attitude Control System Design (2021)

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Design of the Alpha CubeSat: Technology Demonstration of a ChipSat-Equipped Retroreflective Light Sail

Published: 2021 | Research Paper | Joshua S. Umansky-Castro, João Maria B. Mesquita, Avisha Kumar, Maxwell Anderson, Tan Yaw Tung, Jenny J. Wen, V. Hunter Adams and Mason A. Peck

Alpha CubeSat Design Paper (2021)

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