PetitSat (Plasma Enhancements in The Ionosphere-Thermosphere Satellite)

PetitSat
PetitSat
PetitSat
Spacecraft PetitSat (Plasma Enhancements in The Ionosphere-Thermosphere Satellite)
Spacecraft type CubeSat
Units or mass 6U
Status Reentry 2023-04-10. Was operational until? (Deployed from ISS on 2022-12-29 and press release on 2023-02-01, but marked as Failure in the NASA CubeSat Fleet Missions database)
Launched 2022-11-26
NORAD ID 55130
Deployer NRCSD (NanoRacks CubeSat Deployer) [Quad-M]
Launcher Falcon 9 (CRS-26) (ELaNa 49)
Deployment Deployed from ISS on 2022-12-29
Organization NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Institution Space agency
Entity Government (Civil / Military)
Headquarters US
Partners Utah State University, Boston University, Virginia Tech
Oneliner

Provide in-situ measurements of plasma density, 3D ion drift, as well as ion and neutral composition.

Description

Study density irregularities in the mid and low-latitude ionosphere. Ion-Neutral Mass Spectrometer, or INMS — the world’s smallest mass spectrometer. Gridded Retarding Ion Drift Sensor.

petitSat is a GSFC 6U CubeSat led by Principal Investigator Dr. Jeffrey Klenzing. The mission is funded by the NASA Science Mission Directorate Heliophysics Division. It is a collaboration that includes Utah State University, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, and Boston University.

petitSat will also be incorporating a technology demonstration of an impulse control system utilizing ion thrusters that was developed internally at GSFC. This demonstration will be conducted once the mission's science objectives have been met.

Results

Marked as Failure in the NASA SmallSat/CubeSat Fleet Missions Database.

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Keywords Propulsion

Last modified: 2023-12-26

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