Skewray Research (ZF¬C)I got a NASA neutrino-detecting space satellite delivered yesterday. Pretty cool! Taking it up to Vandenberg Space Force Base in a few days.
https://www.skewray.com/articles/snappy-neutrino-detecting-satellite
synlogic4242@skewray as one does. congrats I think!
DougMerritt (log😅 = 💧log😄)@dougmerritt @synlogic4242 The plan is to scale this up the size of a Volkswagen and put it three Solar radii from the Sun. The data from this tiny thing will be all background noise, which will be extremely useful for modeling performance.
@skewray @dougmerritt nice work!
do you have an estimate for how long this one will stay in orbit? I know some models of cubesat ship with at least some propulsion/attitude control for maintaining/extending orbit lifetime. also... do you have way to get data back to Earth from it? ground recovery, or the thing transmitting via relays?
@synlogic4242 @dougmerritt Life expectancy of the spacecraft is a year or two. I think we are funded for a year of data? We got our S-band license on Monday; without that, would would not be able to be put on a rocket. We still don't have a UHF license. The S-band communicated with ground stations.
We do have attitude control, only for antenna pointing, but it is magnetic torque rods only.