NASA CubeSat
IceCube - ELaNa XVII
IceCube – ELaNa XVII
IceCube mission is to demonstrate the technology of a submillimeter-wave radiometer for future cloud ice sensing. This technology will enable cloud ice measurements to be taken in the intermediate altitudes (5km – 15km), where no measurements currently exist. It will perform first-of-a-kind measurements of ice particles embedded within clouds. These measurements will not only advance atmospheric monitoring technology, they will also fill in critical gaps in understanding of how cloud ice affects the weather and how cloud formations process atmospheric radiation. IceCube, the first small satellite project managed by Goddard Space Flight Center's Wallops Flight Facility, is a 3U cubesat weighing 10 pounds and about the size of a breadloaf, complete with three-axis attitude control, deployable solar areas and a deployable UHF communications antenna. Launched by NASA’s CubeSat Launch Initiative on the May 24, 2017 ELaNa XVII mission on the seventh Orbital-ATK Cygnus Commercial Resupply Services (OA-7) to the International Space Station and deployed on tbd. Credit: NASA
IceCube - ELaNa XVII
IceCube – ELaNa XVII
IceCube mission is to demonstrate the technology of a submillimeter-wave radiometer for future cloud ice sensing. This technology will enable cloud ice measurements to be taken in the intermediate altitudes (5km – 15km), where no measurements currently exist. It will perform first-of-a-kind measurements of ice particles embedded within clouds. These measurements will not only advance atmospheric monitoring technology, they will also fill in critical gaps in understanding of how cloud ice affects the weather and how cloud formations process atmospheric radiation. IceCube, the first small satellite project managed by Goddard Space Flight Center's Wallops Flight Facility, is a 3U cubesat weighing 10 pounds and about the size of a breadloaf, complete with three-axis attitude control, deployable solar areas and a deployable UHF communications antenna. Launched by NASA’s CubeSat Launch Initiative on the May 24, 2017 ELaNa XVII mission on the seventh Orbital-ATK Cygnus Commercial Resupply Services (OA-7) to the International Space Station and deployed on tbd. Credit: NASA