NACHOS

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Name NACHOS
Type CubeSat
Units or mass 3U
Organisation Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)
Institution Institute
Entity Government (Civil / Military)
Nation US
Launch brokerer NASA CSLI / ELaNa
Oneliner

Technology demonstration of an ultra-compact, high-resolution, hyperspectral imager.

Description

Technology demonstration of an ultra-compact, high-resolution, hyperspectral imager that is able to monitor fossil fuel burning and low-level passive degassing at volcanoes. If successful, it will be a paradigm shift in space-borne sensing—from expensive single-platform, large-satellite instruments, to agile constellations of relatively inexpensive instruments on small satellites.

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Related Spacecraft

Name Status Launch Orbit
NACHOS (NanoSat Atmospheric Chemistry Hyperspectral Observation System, NACHOS-1) Reentry 2023-02-03. Was operational (Official confirmation about being in commissioning phase on a podcast on 2022-11-04 as of 2022-12-20) 2022-02-19 400 km, 51.6 deg, ISS
NACHOS 2 (NanoSat Atmospheric Chemistry Hyperspectral Observation System) Operational (Official confirmation about being in commissioning phase on a podcast on 2022-11-04 as of 2022-12-20) 2022-07-02 495 km, 45 deg

Last modified: 2023-06-03
Detailed NACHOS entry in the Database
Full Nanosats Database (much more data)

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