Montana-Designed Satellite Is Launched
Almost all the space excitement this week has been on Mars, where the latest NASA rover, Perseverance, landed and started sending back incredible views, such as video of its landing - a film first.
I say almost, because a resupply launch to the International Space Station (ISS) Saturday, February 20, carried a little satellite designed and constructed by a team at Montana State University in Bozeman. A Northrop Grumman Cygnus resupply spacecraft lifted off from NASA s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia and less than two hours later docked at the space station.
The IT-SPINS satellite will stay at the orbiting space station until spring, when it will orbit on its own and measure the outer edges of Earth s atmosphere, as it goes around the planet 14 times a day. The six-month mission is the twelfth satellite that MSU students have sent into space since 2015. This one has a sensor that will measure ultraviolet light in the top layers of ou
NASA Launches Satellite Designed and Built by MSU Students
Published: February 24, 2021
The Ionospheric-Thermospheric Scanning Photometer for Ion-Neutral Studies (IT-SPINS) mission proposes to provide the first two-dimensional (2D) tomographic imaging from a 3U research CubeSat, addressing the basic nature of the nocturnal ionosphere. This 6-month mission aims to strengthen our fundamental understanding for development of ion gradient structures in the topside of the Earth’s ionosphere and secondarily within regional phenomena such as equatorial plasma bubbles (EPBs) or polar patches. (MSU Image)
BOZEMAN Culminating years of work, a small satellite designed and built by Montana State University students is set to launch Saturday aboard a cargo resupply rocket bound for the International Space Station.
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