Robert "Bob" Twiggs is an American aerospace engineer. He is emeritus Professor of Astronautics and Space Science at Morehead State University. He co-invented the CubeSat reference design for miniaturized satellites along with Jordi Puig-Suari of California Polytechnic State University, now an industry standard for the design and deployment of small satellites.
Submissions from 2025
How Education Sats Started, Robert J. Twiggs
SEES Presentation: Small Satellites Power Systems, Robert J. Twiggs
Space Program, Robert J. Twiggs
Submissions from 2024
Comm-Modulation & Data Transmission Errors, Robert J. Twiggs
Comm-Modulation & Data Transmission Errors - Video (Part 1), Robert J. Twiggs
Comm-Modulation & Data Transmission Errors - Video (Part 2), Robert J. Twiggs
Error Detection & Correction, Robert J. Twiggs
Re-Architecting Space Systems: Infrastructure Changes Everything, Rick Fleeter
SlimSat, Robert J. Twiggs and Nick Pugh
Space Program: Center for Space Research - Austin, Texas #1, Robert J. Twiggs
Space Program: Center for Space Research - Austin, Texas #2, Robert J. Twiggs
Space Program: Center for Space Research - Austin, Texas #3, Robert J. Twiggs
Understanding Orbits: Just enough to make you dangerous, Robert J. Twiggs
Understanding Orbits: Orbit Facts, Robert J. Twiggs
Your New Astronautics Assignment, Robert J. Twiggs
Submissions from 2023
CubeSats for Education, Not Any More #2, Robert J. Twiggs and Aaron Zuckerman
CubeSats for Education, Not Any More #3, Robert J. Twiggs
CubeSats for Education: Not Any More - Video #1, Robert J. Twiggs
CubeSats for Education: Not Any More - Video #2, Robert J. Twiggs
How Education Sats Started & A Youth Amsat-NA Program Proposal, Robert J. Twiggs and Nick Pugh
Midway Middle School STEM Club Presentation, Robert J. Twiggs and Midway Middle School (Hewitt, TX)
NUSAT I Project, Robert J. Twiggs
SEES High School Summer Internship Program, Texas Space Grant Consortium
SkyQube: Developing Tools for STEM Education Focusing on Space System Engineering, Robert J. Twiggs
SkyQube V2, Robert J. Twiggs
Texas Atmospheric and Space Research (TASR) Team Meeting - July 19, 2023, Texas Atmospheric and Space Research Team
Video Call between Amin Djam and Bob Twiggs, Robert J. Twiggs and Amin Djam
Submissions from 2022
Bringing Science Into the Classroom With LoRa Radiotechnology, Robert J. Twiggs
Review of Team JiggyBot, Robert J. Twiggs
SkyQube: Developing Tools for STEM Education Focusing on Space System Engineering, Robert J. Twiggs
Twiggs Space Lab Zoom Call, Robert J. Twiggs, Amin Djam, and Jose Garcia
Submissions from 2021
CAPE 4 STEM Outreach, Hayden Hulin and Nick Pugh
Marketing Collateral and Social Media, Robert J. Twiggs
MAST: Multi Application Survivable Tether, Robert J. Twiggs
NUSAT 1: Northern Utah Satellite, Robert J. Twiggs
NUSat I: History, Robert J. Twiggs
NUSat I: History, Robert J. Twiggs
Start with Simple Spacecraft: CanSat & CricketSat, Robert J. Twiggs
Submissions from 2020
ARLISS Lite: An S4 PocketQube Falcon 9 Airframe, Ken Biba
Submissions from 2019
Road to Hayabusa2 from CanSat and CubeSat, Yuichi Tsuda
Submissions from 2018
Nanosatellite Space Experiment, Robert J. Twiggs
The PocketQube Standard: Issue 1, Robert J. Twiggs
Submissions from 2017
An Exciting Opportunity to Advance STEM Education with Femto-satellites, Dale Nash
Bringing Space to the Classroom Through STEM Education Providing Extreme Low Earth Orbit Missions Using ThinSats, Robert J. Twiggs
Decibel Notes, Robert J. Twiggs
Determining Power for a CubeSat, Robert J. Twiggs
Develop PUCP microlab for ThinSat, Robert J. Twiggs
Flying Simple Experiments in Space, Robert J. Twiggs
Low Cost Missions for the Unordinary Innovators, Robert J. Twiggs
Payloads for Student ThinSat Satellites, Robert J. Twiggs
Providing a Unique STEM Education Opportunity with a Five Day ELEOMission, Robert J. Twiggs, Amin Djamshidpour, Matt Craft, Dale Nash, and Hank Voss
Providing a Unique STEM Education Opportunity with a Five-Day ELEO Mission, Robert J. Twiggs
Reference Slides, Robert J. Twiggs
Russian Cluster LEO Silo Launch - Video, Robert J. Twiggs
Russian Commercial LEO Silo Launch - Video, Robert J. Twiggs
Russian Large Spacecraft GEO Silo Launch - Video, Robert J. Twiggs
Russian Large Spacecraft LEO Silo Launch - Video, Robert J. Twiggs
Russian Probe Mars Silo Launch - Video, Robert J. Twiggs
Russian Surface LEO Launches - Video, Robert J. Twiggs
Students reaching for the stars become the next generation of International Leaders, Robert J. Twiggs
Students reaching for the stars become the next generation of International Leaders: PUCP 100 Year Anniversary - Part 1, Robert J. Twiggs
Students reaching for the stars become the next generation of International Leaders: PUCP 100 Year Anniversary - Part 2, Robert J. Twiggs
TU-POD: A Cube Satellite (CubeSat) and Tube Satellite Dispenser Produced via 3D Printing, Successful Launch, Orbit and Dispensing of Two Tube Satellites, Robert J. Twiggs, Matt Craft, Amin Djamshidpour, Chantal Cappelletti, Ken Biba, and Stewart Davis
TU-POD: Launched from the International Space Station, Amin Djamshidpour and Bob Twiggs
Submissions from 2016
Citizen Satellite: A Way to have Low Cost Space Missions for the Unordinary Innovator, Robert J. Twiggs, Amin Djamshidpour, Ted Tagami, and Tony So
Citizen Satellite: A Way to have Low Cost Space Missions for the Unordinary Innovator, Robert J. Twiggs, Amin Djamshidpour, Ted Tagami, and Tony So
CitizenSatellite: Low Cost Missions for the Unordinary Innovator, Robert J. Twiggs, Amin Djamshidpour, Ted Tagami, and Tony So
Launch Vehicles, Robert J. Twiggs
Lunar IceCube: NASA NEXTSTEP Lunar CubeSat Mission, Robert J. Twiggs
Lunar IceCube Space Mission, Robert J. Twiggs and Eric Jerde
Overview of EPS-1 for Spacecraft, Robert J. Twiggs
Overview of EPS-2 for Spacecraft, Robert J. Twiggs
PocketCubes/CubeSats on Antares, Robert J. Twiggs, Walter Holemans, and Michael Bitzer
PocketQube Opportunity Mission, Robert J. Twiggs
PocketQube Opportunity Mission: VMO Mission, Robert J. Twiggs
PocketQube: The New Opportunity to get into Space, Robert J. Twiggs
Secondary Launch Opportunities Orbital ATK, Robert J. Twiggs
Space Systems Overview of SSE -120 Satellites & Space Systems I, Robert J. Twiggs
Syllabus: Space Systems Engineering 122 (Satellites and Space Systems II), Robert J. Twiggs
Tu-POD: Deployment Mechanism & Antenna Mounting, Robert J. Twiggs
Tu-POD: Safety Review, Robert J. Twiggs
Virginia Space PocketQube Launch Opportunity, Robert J. Twiggs
Want to be a Space Scientistfor all ages?, Robert J. Twiggs
Submissions from 2015
A Brief History of Space - SSE 120, Robert J. Twiggs
A Brief History of Space - SSE 120 Questions 01, Robert J. Twiggs
A Brief History of Space - SSE 120 Questions 02, Robert J. Twiggs
A Brief History of Space - SSE 120 Questions 03, Robert J. Twiggs
A Brief History of Space - SSE 120 Questions 04, Robert J. Twiggs
A Brief History of Space - SSE 120 Session 1, Robert J. Twiggs
Brief Look at the Environment of Space, Robert J. Twiggs
Brief Look at the Environment of Space, Robert J. Twiggs
Brief Look at the Environment of Space, Robert J. Twiggs
CDTX: Cool Drop Test Experiment, Robert J. Twiggs
Cubesat Remote Data & Comms Transponders 145.825 MHz, Bob Bruninga, Mirek Kasal, and Mike Ruprecht
Energy Use & Generation, Robert J. Twiggs
EPS & Batteries, Jeff Kruth
Into Space @ Morehead, Robert J. Twiggs
Lunar IceCube: NEXTSTEP Lunar Cubesat Mission and Instrument Concept, Robert J. Twiggs
NUSat I Participant Photographs, Robert J. Twiggs
Orbital Debris Mitigation Policy and Unique Challenges for Small Satellites, J. C. Liou and David Jarkey