Hatchling Veery @ Nanosats Database

Name	Veery Hatchling (Veery-RL1, Veery V0.1, Clay)
Type	CubeSat
Units or mass	1U
Status	Operational (Official social media)
Launched	2021-03-22
NORAD ID	47965
Deployer	Maxwell [Rocket Lab]
Launcher	Electron
Organisation	Care Weather Technologies
Institution	Company
Entity	Commercial
Nation	US
Oneliner	Building phone—sized weather satellites to power a super accurate forecast.
Description	The Veery Hatchling mission will test Care Weather's vertically-integrated satellite power, computing, and avionics systems in a 1U CubeSat. It paves the way for Care Weather's future constellation of scatterometric radar weather satellites capable of producing hourly maps of global wind speed and direction over the surface of the ocean. Veery Hatchling is the first step in Care Weather's mission to save lives and livelihoods by better forecasting Earth's extreme weather. After launch, Hatchling Veery makes initial contact with the Iridium network while freely tumbling. Next, it performs a variety of attitude control tests. Hatchling periodically communicates its temperature, attitude, reaction wheel operation, battery charge, power consumption, and power generation. Uses a single micro-USB connector to charge the batteries, update software, monitor performance, debug, and ensure the system is powered off with a "Remove before flight" (RBF) pin.
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Keywords	Globalstar or Iridium or Inmarsat

Veery Hatchling (Veery-RL1, Veery V0.1, Clay)