Bob Twiggs

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Bob Twiggs at the 2009 Summer CubeSat Developers' Workshop in Logan, Utah, United States

Bob Twiggs is a consulting professor emeritus at Stanford University who is responsible, along with Jordi Puig-Suari of California Polytechnic State University, for co-inventing the CubeSat reference design for miniaturised satellites which became an Industry Standard for design and deployment of the satellites.

Career

In 2009, Bob Twiggs became a professor at Morehead State University in an effort to push the PocketQube standard leveraging the universities large aperture (21m) space tracking system, and to help develop a space economy in the state of Kentucky.

Bob is currently splitting his time between Morehead State University in Kentucky.

CubeSats

Twiggs was the co-inventor of the CubeSat reference design, along with professor Jordi Puig-Suari of California Polytechnic State University. Their goal was to enable graduate students to be able to design, build, test and operate in space a spacecraft with capabilities similar to that of the first spacecraft, Sputnik.

Over time, the CubeSat design emerged as an Industry standard, widely "adopted by universities, companies and government agencies around the world."

The first CubeSats were launched into low Earth orbit in June 2003. As of August 2012, approximately 75 CubeSats have been placed into orbit, and the number is growing rapidly.

External links

• Official site
• Bob Twiggs at the Internet Movie Database
• Satellite pioneer joins Morehead State's space science faculty