Thứ Tư, 5 tháng 6, 2019

Swarm of 105 tiny Sprite ChipSats successfully deployed

An artist’s rendering of the deployment of ChipSats from a shoebox-sized CubeSat

If you thought SpaceX launching 60 Starlink satellites at once was impressive, Cornell University has managed 105 small satellites. The ChipSats, called Sprites, forming a swarm of cracker-sized nanosatellites were deployed from the Kicksat-2 CubeSat on March 18, 2019 at an altitude of 300 km (186 mi) and contact was established by Stanford University and NASA Ames engineers the next day by a Cornell satellite ground station.

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