Name | MicroMAS-1 |
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Type | CubeSat |
Units or mass | 3U |
Status | Reentry 2015-08-01. Was operational until 2015-03-18, two weeks? Transmitter failed. |
Launched | 2014-07-13 |
NORAD ID | 40457 |
Deployer | NRCSD (NanoRacks CubeSat Deployer) [Quad-M] |
Launcher | Antares |
Deployment | Deployed from ISS on 2015-03-04 |
Organisation | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Institution | University |
Entity | Academic / Education |
Nation | US |
Launch brokerer | Nanoracks |
Oneliner | Microwave spectrometer to observe weather events. |
Failure cause | Transmitter failed. |
Sources | [1] |
Last modified: 2021-03-21
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