Athena Orbits Four Satellites in First Alaska Launch

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Athena Orbits Four Satellites in First Alaska
Launch

• PICOSat
• STARSHINE3
• PCSat
• SAPPHIRE

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PICOSat

• Flexible Polymer Battery
• Use GPS to Measure Ionospheric Impacts to
  Communications and Navigation Signals
• Vibration Control for Satellite Sensors

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STARSHINE 3

• NASA and NRL
• Resulting Data provides scientists with new
  knowledge about how the Earths upper atmosphere
  reacts to fluctuations in the suns ultraviolet
  radiation during a sunspot cycle

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PCSat

• Used to relay position data from amateur radio
  operators to ground stations
• 145.825/144.39 (1200/9600)
• NORAD object number 26931
• Heavens-above.com

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PCSat
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SAPPHIRE

Primary mission is to space-qualify
micro-machined infrared sensors
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SAPPHIRE (cont)

• Tunneling Horizon Detectors - new generation of
  infrared sensors that detect changes in IR
  emission 
• Digital Camera - modified for space flight and
  planned to photograph North America (around 1km
  resolution) 
• Voice Synthesizer - The Digitalker is to provide
  a payload of interest for the Amateur Radio
  community, specifically in education
• Telemetry Experiment - A pseudo-payload, designed
  by students, is to assess how well we can
  determine our attitude using the solar panels as
  a differential sun sensor

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FIRST ORBITAL LAUNCH FROM KODIAK ISLAND

• AADC established in 1991

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