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ALICE
ALICE is the first nanosatellite developed by the Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT), an Air Force graduate engineering school at the Wright Patterson Air Force Base (WPAFB) in Ohio. The primary goal of ALICE is to evaluate a pair of advanced Carbon Nanotube...
ISS Airlock Handrail Antenna
The ISS Orlan antenna designed and built at Georgia Tech Research Institute offered a unique new form for antennas. The 2 ft towel shaped antenna doubles as a handrail and allows for communication between suited astronauts within the airlock and the rest of the...
Long Duration Exposure Facility
The Long Duration Exposure Facility was a free structure implemented to take full advantage of the two way transportation capability of the Space Shuttle program. This satellite consisted of a number of technological experiments designed to collect information about...
LightSail
The LightSail missions, both LightSail 1 and LightSail 2, were developed by The Planetary Society to provide a functional demonstration of light propulsion for spacecraft. LightSail 1 demonstrated that the sail itself could be safely launched and deployed upon...
MicroNimbus
MicroNimbus is a small satellite mission being developed by the Georgia Institute of Technology and Georgia Tech Research Institute that will utilize a frequency-agile mm-wave radiometer to measure and update the temperature profile of the atmosphere from a 3U CubeSat...
MISSE-11
MISSE-12 is an external craft within the MISSE series aimed at testing various materials in the harsh environment of space. The crafts include ram, wake, zenith, and nadir exposures. (These are coordinate axes in the spacecraft-centered coordinate system.) Craft...
MISSE-12
MISSE-12 is an external craft within the MISSE series aimed at testing various materials in the harsh environment of space. The crafts include ram, wake, zenith, and nadir exposures. (These are coordinate axes in the spacecraft-centered coordinate system.) Craft...
NanoRacks External Platform
The NREP-1 mission was a piece of equipment designed to act as a gateway between the inside of the International Space Station (ISS) and the extreme environment of space. Craft Overview: NREP-1 was designed to test the capabilities of of advanced electronics and...
OrCa
The Challenge: Optical observations of resident space objects (RSOs) are typically conducted by leveraging ground and space-based telescopes as well as all-sky imagers Most observations are unresolved images – creating difficultly in determining RSO behavior such as...
MISSE-15
MISSE-15 is an external craft within the MISSE series aimed at testing various materials in the harsh environment of space. The crafts include ram, wake, zenith, and nadir exposures. (These are coordinate axes in the spacecraft-centered coordinate system.) Craft...