![]() ![]() Those bantam "picosats" include Genesis-L & Genesis-N, from AMSAT (Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation) Spain. The third payload - the PicoBus deployer, from the nonprofit Libre Space - carries five tiny payloads of its own. TES-15 also carries an experiment designed to optimize data transfer from the little spacecraft, the company added. "The exo-brake will deploy after the cubesat is ejected from its dispenser to deorbit the cubesat," Firefly wrote in the mission description. TES-15 features an "exo-brake" designed to help satellites leave their orbital perches more smoothly when their work is done. Serenity was designed to collect a variety of data during today's flight, which will be shared with the educational community, according to a Firefly mission description.Īlso reaching orbit today was TechEdSat-15 (TES-15), which is owned by NASA in coordination with San Jose State University in California. reports: One of them, called Serenity, comes from the nonprofit organization Teachers in Space. All three payloads were successfully deployed. Shameless plug - I had the pleasure of building the Serenity satellite, a 3U CubeSat that flew on the mission.Ĭheck out the video of the launch and deployment. This marks one of a handful of companies who have reached space with that few attempts (Virgin Orbit and RocketLab are just some of the others). Techmage writes: Early this morning, Firefly Aerospace succeeded in launching their Alpha rocket to Low Earth Orbit. ![]()
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