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MSC will open an effective way of integrating students, graduate and undergraduate, into cutting edge
research and in new space technologies. The research programs of MSC will provide research assistantships
(RAs) to graduate engineering students. In addition, it is anticipated that a number of undergraduate
engineering students will participate in MSC projects. These arrangements will give highly valuable experience
of working in teams on real-life projects. This close link between MSC's R&D programs and training of the
future generation of space engineers will assure diffusion of the accumulated technologies and processes to
the American Space Industry.
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Applications include earth imaging, sensor networks for remote sensing, providing communications and
bandwidth to specific isolated areas, asset and people tracking, space weather, space science, imaging,
and applications in support of Lunar and Martian exploration. Highly maneuverable satellites are
particularly interesting for flying over or pointing to specific areas and for in-space docking and
assembly of large structures Another is in constellations of microsatellites flying in formation to
make large, virtual apertures.
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