TechEdSat-16 Spacecraft

Spacecraft name TechEdSat-16 (TES-16)
Type CubeSat
Units or mass 12U
Status not launched, expected in 2026
Launcher Firefly Alpha, (Elytra), (ELaNa 42)
Organisation NASA Ames Research Center
Institution Space agency
Entity Government (Civil / Military)
Headquarters US
Oneliner

12U Upcoming tech-demo in development, with 12U Exo-Brake validation.
Description

12U Upcoming tech-demo in development, with 12U Exo-Brake validation.

TechEdSat-16, projected to launch in early 2024, will fly the Kapaho Bay Revision ‘B’ module, which is designed to alleviate several of the issues found with the original experimental model. This hardware-improved module uses the same first generation Loihi as the TES-13 experiment, but the Kapaho Bay USB host is designed to be more tolerant to temperature fluctuations compared to the previous revision.
Sources [1] [2]
Keywords De-orbit device

Last modified: 2025-12-20

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