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on September 27, 2021. Designed to operate for at least 8 months and study 10 exoplanets, CUTE remains operational as of December 2023, 27 months after launch. The spacecraft is expected to remain in orbit until 2027.
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The UV sensor is a 2048 x 515 pixel CCD array, with the spectrum lengthwise across the sensor. The 515 pixel width provides tolerance from sensor damage.
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The Colorado Ultraviolet Transit Experiment (CUTE): a dedicated cubesat mission for the study of exoplanetary mass loss and magnetic fields
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CUTE can measure near-UV (255-330 nm) and do low resolution spectroscopy of atmospheric tracers (eg. Fe II, Mg II, Mg I, OH).
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are underlined. Launch failures are marked with the † sign. Payloads deployed from other spacecraft are (enclosed in parentheses).
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Launches are separated by dots ( • ), payloads by commas ( , ), multiple names for the same satellite by slashes ( / ).
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Index

Cute (disambiguation)
UV
space telescope
exoplanets
Atlas V
Landsat 9
Ultraviolet astronomy


"A Tiny, Inexpensive Satellite Will be Studying the Atmospheres of hot Jupiters"
Universe Today
"Cubesat offers template for future astronomy missions"
SpaceNews
"Colorado Ultraviolet Transit Experiment (CUTE)"
LASP
University of Colorado Boulder
Proceedings of SPIE
arXiv
1801.02673v1
doi
10.1117/12.2276138
ISBN
978-1-5106-1251-8
CUTE homepage
Instrument Design Overview
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Orbital launches in 2021

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