Name | WormSail |
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Type | CubeSat |
Units or mass | 2U |
Status | not launched, expected in 2023 |
Organisation | University of Nottingham |
Institution | University |
Entity | Academic / Education |
Nation | UK |
Partners | Universidade de Brasília |
Oneliner |
Aims to use small satellites as affordable tools for biomedical research in space. |
Description |
WormSail is the first mission of the University of Nottingham CubeSat program, which aims to use small satellites as affordable tools for biomedical research in space. As a pathfinder mission, WormSail aims to be as cost effective as possible in demonstrating that UoN has the ability to develop biomedical experiment payloads and CubeSat platforms with which to support them and general payloads in space. |
Sources | [1] [2] [3] [4] |
Photo sources | [1] |
Keywords | De-orbit device |
Last modified: 2023-06-09
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