@InProceedings{DosSantos:2018:ExNaPi,
               author = "Dos Santos, Walter Abrah{\~a}o",
          affiliation = "{Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)}",
                title = "Experimenting with Nanosats and Picosats for capacity building in 
                         Brazil",
                 year = "2018",
         organization = "International Astronautical Congress, 69.",
             abstract = "The engineering carriers in Brazil are currently facing a serious 
                         setback due to the lack of national investments in a state-driven 
                         research and development sector deeply affected by recession and 
                         corruption. In countries with an established space sector, its 
                         industry segment usually has an amplifying factor in the internal 
                         economy. In this scenario, this paper presents some initiatives, 
                         best practices, lessons-learned and results using nanosats and 
                         picosats for space education and outreach in Brazil ranging from 
                         teens to post-graduate students. The first one was the Tancredo-I 
                         picosatellite project development and successful launch from the 
                         Japanese ISS Kibo module in early 2017 followed by the formation 
                         of INPEs Space Engineering and Technology post-graduate CTEE group 
                         which aims at enabling hands-on space missions for students, build 
                         up future workforce developments and promoting various outreach 
                         activities. The CTEE group has setup some good practices to 
                         support the development of a series of nanosats with increasing 
                         complexity and mission capabilities. Some measures of critical 
                         assessment with very positive results for the Tancredo-I 
                         picosatellite in the Brazilian media and web access to project 
                         content are quite visible. A series of small cubesat workshop 
                         events targeting kids and the public in general are detailed with 
                         innovative approaches to the theme. All these activities are 
                         looking forward to reach competencies such as on Industry 4.0 
                         driven by automation, big data, artificial intelligence, 3D 
                         printing, etc., that rely pretty much on engineering skills which 
                         Brazil needs to improve extensively. Future plans include a first 
                         time national nanosat competition named CubeDesign which 2018s 
                         edition is taking place and a laboratory dedicated to the 
                         development of nanosats, named CubeDevLab, and run by students, 
                         INPE staff and its collaborators.",
  conference-location = "Bremen",
      conference-year = "01-05 oct.",
             language = "pt",
           targetfile = "dos santos_experimenting.pdf",
        urlaccessdate = "28 abr. 2024"
}