A Year with the AMSAT CubeSat Simulator: 12 Months in the Classroom and Lab

摘要

The AMSAT CubeSat Simulator is a tool for academic education, public demonstrations and engineering education.It can be used in a classroom or training setting to introduce the basics of satellite operations, or it can be used to teach STEM(Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) concepts, or it can be a stepping stone in a project to build and launch anactual CubeSat flight model. This paper details our experiences using the Simulator in the classroom and in the lab in the twelvemonths since we unveiled a proof-of-concept design at the 2018 AMSAT Space Symposium. Lessons learned and future plans arealso discussed, including the development of “Lesson Plan Core Structures.”