The 109th CubeSat (small satellite) selected through NASA’s CubeSat Launch Initiative deployed July 13 at 12:55 pm EDT. The Technology Education Satellite 10 (TechEdSat-10) deployed from the International Space Station via the commercially developed Nanoracks CubeSat Deployer.
TechEdSat-10 (pictured above) is a 6U CubeSat that flew as a payload aboard Northrop Grumman’s 13th (NG-13) Commercial Resupply Mission, which launched Feb. 15, 2020. This small satellite mission will test radio communication (‘Lunar’ and ‘Mars’ radios, wireless sensor technologies and internal Wi-Fi), precision deorbit technologies, radiation-tolerant electronics, and hardware for future artificial intelligence space experiments. It has seven transmitters, eight microprocessors, and the largest capacity power system of all similarly sized NASA CubeSats.
TechEdSat-10 is managed by NASA’S Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley and funded by Ames and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency (NOAA), with experiments supported by NASA’s Small Spacecraft Technology Program. The team responsible for designing and executing this small satellite mission is a collaborative group comprised of NASA staff and interns, federal laboratories, and academia.
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