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This document describes the design, construction, and testing of a vertical laminar flow hood that will provide the needed clean environment for the University of Southern Indiana's Undergraduate Nano Ionospheric Temperature Explorer (UNITE) CubeSat spacecraft team to integrate the final flight components of their spacecraft. This laminar flow hood is a positively pressured system that filters out 99.9995% of particulates greater than 0.3 pm from the ambient environment in the optics lab on USI's campus. It consists of a pre-filter, a direct drive blower, and a HEPA filter in order to provide the needed clean environment. The whole laminar flow hood system was built from the ground up by the team of students that worked on this project. This included welding together the entire frame, integrating all of the medium-density fiberboards (MDF) into the system, cutting and then installing the stainless steel sheet metal inside the workspace, installing the blower and filters, and wiring up the entire electrical system within the flow hood. The clean workspace of the flow hood is 48" wide x 32" deep x 20" high. The 48" wide X 32" deep x 78" high steel frame of the flow hood sits atop 4" high locking casters, which provide easy mobility of the flow hood. The work surface of the flow hood is -30" from the ground, which allows the user to sit comfortably while working at the flow hood. This vertical laminar flow hood will provide USI's UNITE CubeSat team with the needed clean environment to integrate the final flight components of their spacecraft.

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