TechSat is a satellite produced through the US Army and the Department of Defense.
Craft Overview:
TechSat was designed to combine two key pieces of technology into one spacecraft: high power architecture with articulated solar arrays and a commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) high performance parallel processing computer.
Sources and Additional Information:
- J. R. Samson, “Small, light-weight, low-power, low-cost, high performance computing for CubeSats,” 2014 IEEE Aerospace Conference, 2014, pp. 1-10, doi: 10.1109/AERO.2014.6836523.
- https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/smdc-techsat.htm
| Acronym | SMDC TechSat |
| Full Name | Space Missile Defense Command – Technology Satellite |
| Size | 3U |
| Status | Inactive |
| Launch Date | circa 2012 |
| Principal Investigator | Brian Gunter |