第一个立方卫星是在2000年代初创建的，目的是使斯坦福大学的研究生能够设计、建造、测试和操作具有与苏联人造卫星类似功能的航天器。
The first Cube Sat was created in the early 2000s, as a way of enabling Stanford graduate students to design, build, test and operate a spacecraft with similar capabilities to the USSR's Sputnik.
1950年，苏联人造卫星升空震惊了美国社会，而后为了追赶苏联的脚步，学生的作业负担也加重了。
In the 1950s, the Sputnik launching ushered in heavier workloads for American students in the race to keep up with the Soviet Union.
苏联在1957年发射了人造卫星，使美国人担心苏联人的技术领先将使其取得冷战的胜利。
The U.S.S.R. 's launch of the Sputnik satellite in 1957 inspired fears that the Soviet Union's presumed technological lead would allow it to triumph in the Cold War.
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