Kicksat

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General

Designation	39685 / 14022F
Launch date	18 Apr 2014
Country of origin	United States
Mission	Technology
Perigee/Apogee	244/270 km
Inclination	51.6°
Period	89 min
Launch vehicle	Falcon 9 #14

3U cubesat: 1U contains the avionic bus, the rest contains a deployer for 100 "chipsats" (sprite). Each Sprite is a tiny spacecraft with power, sensor and communication systems on a printed circuit board. It is intended as a general-purpose sensor platform for micro-electro-mechanical and other chip-scale sensors with the ability to downlink data to ground stations from low Earth orbit.

Developed by Cornell University.

A timer problem prevented to ejection of the chipsats and that couldn't be done before satellite reentry.

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End of life

Decay

16 May 2014

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External resources

http://zacinaction.github.io/kicksat/

sat-index articles

n2yo.com tracking

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