3 papers
physics.app-ph2025
Development of an Open-Source Spacecraft Bus for the PULSE-A CubeSat
Graydon Schulze-Kalt, Robert Pitu, Spencer Shelton +18
The undergraduate-led Polarization-modUlated Laser Satellite Experiment (PULSE-A) at the University of Chicago seeks to demonstrate the feasibility of circular polarization shift k…
astro-ph.IM2025
DarkNESS: A skipper-CCD NanoSatellite for Dark Matter Searches
Phoenix Alpine, Samriddhi Bhatia, Ana M. Botti +16
The Dark matter Nanosatellite Equipped with Skipper Sensors (DarkNESS) deploys a recently developed skipper-CCD architecture with sub-electron readout noise in low Earth orbit (LEO…
astro-ph.IM2024
DarkNESS: developing a skipper-CCD instrument to search for Dark Matter from Low Earth Orbit
Phoenix Alpine, Samriddhi Bhatia, Fernando Chierchie +8
The DarkNESS (Dark Matter Nano-satellite Equipped with Skipper Sensors) mission aims to deploy a skipper-CCD CubeSat Observatory to search for dark matter (DM) from Low Earth Orbit…