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The CubeSat mission to study Solar Particles (CuSP) is a NASA Science Mission CuSP is a NASA Science Mission Directorate sponsored Heliospheric Science Mission. CuSP will launch as a secondary payload on the Space Launch System Exploration Mission One (EM-1) flight. CuSP features three complementary sensors to address two science objectives: 1) study the sources and acceleration mechanisms of solar and interplanetary particles in near-Earth orbit, and 2) support space weather research by determining proton radiation levels during Solar Energetic Particle (SEP) events and identifying Suprathermal properties that could help predict geomagnetic storms. The Suprathermal Ion Sensor, or SIS, is built by Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) to detect and characterize low-energy SEPs. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center's Miniaturized Electron and Ion Telescope, or MErIT, will return counts of high-energy SEPs. Finally, the Vector Helium Magnetometer being built by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory will measure the strength and direction of magnetic fields. In addition to its science objectives, CuSP's primary technical objective is to increase the technological readiness level of our novel in situ ST ion instrument concept so that it can be proposed and flown with significantly reduced risk and cost on future Heliophysics missions.