Hi Justin et al
         When I visited the Canada-France-Hawaii telescope (CFHT) facility on the Big Island of Hawaii two weeks back, I gave a presentation about Project Altair, which was very well received by the astros and engineers alike. There was quite a bit of interest expressed in having flights over their observatory when Altair is ready for science observations. Their instrument complement includes two wide field imagers (MegaCam, WIRCam), a high resolution echelle spectrograph (Espadons), and the recently commissioned  imaging Fourier Transform Spectrograph (Sitelle)

One of the engineers there, Windell Jones, worked on a nanosat (cubesat) design for his Master's thesis at UH Manoa, and was particularly interested in the nanoAltair design being led by Cordell and his UT group. I am attaching my email exchange with Windell following my presentation in which he has provided many useful links as well as a copy of his thesis. Windell is also willing to participate in our telecon at some point to discuss ideas, and I hope we can schedule a telecon at a more reasonable time for him (HST = EDT - 6h)

Sorry to have missed yesterday's telecon during which I wanted to talk about this. Looking forward to following this up at our next meeting. Cheers karun

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      http://projectaltair.org/HyperNews/get/AUX/2015/08/14/07.17-92982-WendellCubeSatInfo.pdf