SENSE

SENSE
SENSE
SENSE
SENSE
Satellite name SENSE
Form factor CubeSat
Units or mass 3U
Entity name US Air Force Space Command
Institution Military
Entity type Government (Civil / Military)
Nation US
Launch brokerer Tyvak, ?
Oneliner

Demonstrate CubeSat platform technologies. and radio occultation measurements of total electron content and L-band scintillation.

Description

Develop best practices for operational CubeSat/NanoSat procurement, development, test, and operations. To mature CubeSat bus and sensor component technology readiness levels and to demonstrate the operational utility of CubeSat measurements by flowing validated, low-latency data into operational space weather models.

3-axis stabilized with star cameras for attitude determination and are equipped with a Compact Total Electron Density Sensor (CTECS) to provide radio occultation measurements of total electron content and L-band scintillation. One satellite has a Cubesat Tiny Ionospheric Photometer (CTIP) monitoring 135.6 nm photons produced by the recombination of O+ ions and electrons.

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Related Spacecraft

Spacecraft Status Launcher Launch date Orbit
SENSE SV1 (Space Environmental NanoSat Experiment, SV-1) Reentry 2015-03-21. Was operational. Minotaur I 2013-11-20 500 km, 40.5 deg
SENSE SV2 (Space Environmental NanoSat Experiment, SV-2) Reentry 2019-10-28. Was semi-operational until 2015-04-30. Minotaur I 2013-11-20 500 km, 40.5 deg

Last modified: 2023-06-09

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