JPL’s CubeSat Clean Room is a Factory for the Smallest Spacecraft

JPL's Integrated CubeSat Development Laboratory is 1,250 square feet of pristine tabletops and freshly scrubbed air dedicated to the manufacture and testing of CubeSat spacecraft. Four different CubeSat mission teams can utilize the cleanroom at the same time.

There are currently three projects in various stages of development in JPL's CubeSat clean room. MarCO (Mars Cube One) is headed to the Red Planet. ASTERIA (Arcsecond Space Telescope Enabling Research in Astrophysics) and TEMPEST-D (Temporal Experiment for Storms and Tropical Systems – Demonstrator) are both Earth orbiters. When MarCO leaves the lab (it is slated to launch in March) the Radar in a CubeSat (RainCube) project will take its place. By the spring of 2016, the CubeSat cleanroom will be the home to four separate CubeSat missions.
The names and titles for the JPL CubeSat mission personnel shown in image are (from left to right):

1. Jason Luu - ASTERIA Electrical Engineer
2. Matthew W. Smith - ASTERIA System Engineer
3. Christopher Pong - ASTERIA Attitude Control Engineer
4. Maria De Soria-Santacruz Pich - ASTERIA Space Environments Engineer
5. Colin Smith – ASTERIA Thermal Engineer
6. Lori Moore – ASTERIA Optical Engineer
7. Rachel Trabert – ASTERIA Integration and Test Engineer
8. Mary White - ASTERIA Project Manager
9. Alessandra Babuscia - ASTERIA Telecommunications Engineer
10. Brad Ortloff – ASTERIA Radar Digital Assembly Engineer
11. Chaitali Parashare – RainCube Radar Electronics Engineer
12. Doug Price – RainCube Radar Engineer
13. Jonathan Sauder – RainCube Radar Antenna Mechanical Engineer
14. Pekka Kangaslahti – TEMPEST-D Technical Consultant
15. Heather Owen – TEMPEST-D Assembly Tech
16. Boon Lim – TEMPEST-D Systems Engineer
17. Sharmila Padmanabhan – TEMPEST-D Instrument Lead
18. Auvin Sierra - Facilities Laboratory Manager
19. Todd Gaier – TEMPEST-D project manager
20. Nacer Chahat – MarCO Radar Antenna Lead Engineer
21. Mary Soria – MarCO Flight Technician
22. Shannon Statham – MarCO Integration & Test Lead, RainCube Project Manager