The CUbesat Solar Polarimeter (CUSP) project aims to develop a constellation of two CubeSats orbiting the Earth to measure the linear polarisation of solar flares in the hard X-ray band by means of a Compton scattering polarimeter on board of each satellite. CUSP will allow to study the magnetic reconnection and particle acceleration in the flaring magnetic structures. CUSP is a project approved for a Phase A study by the Italian Space Agency in the framework of the Alcor program aimed to develop CubeSat technologies and missions.
@article{arxiv.2208.06211,
title = {CUSP: a two cubesats constellation for Space Weather and solar flares X-ray polarimetry},
author = {Sergio Fabiani and Ilaria Baffo and Sergio Bonomo and Gessica Contini and Enrico Costa and Giovanni Cucinella and Giovanni De Cesare and Ettore Del Monte and Andrea Del Re and Sergio Di Cosimo and Simone Di Filippo and Alessandro Di Marco and Pierluigi Fanelli and Fabio La Monaca and Alfredo Locarini and Pasqualino Loffredo and Giovanni Lombardi and Gabriele Minervini and Dario Modenini and Fabio Muleri and Andrea Negri and Massimo Perelli and John Rankin and Alda Rubini and Paolo Soffitta and Eliseo Strollo and Paolo Tortora and Alessandro Zambardi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2208.06211},
year = {2022}
}