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Small Satellites and the U. N. Sustainable Development Goals

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“There can be no Plan B because there is no planet B.”

– Former U. N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon. 2016

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  1. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA

    Scott Madry

  2. University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

    Peter Martinez

  3. Baylor University, Waco, Texas, USA

    Rene Laufer

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Madry, S., Martinez, P., Laufer, R. (2018). Small Satellites and the U. N. Sustainable Development Goals. In: Innovative Design, Manufacturing and Testing of Small Satellites. Springer Praxis Books(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-75094-1_5

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