Sun  ID: 12602

NASA Set To Launch Shoebox-sized Satellite Studying Earth's Upper Atmosphere

Released on August 2, 2017
NASA scientists and engineers named their new CubeSat after the mythological Norse god of the dawn. Now, just days from launch, they are confident the shoebox-sized satellite Dellingr will live up to its name and inaugurate a new era for scientists wanting to use small, highly reliable satellites to carry out important, and in some cases, never-before-tried science.

Dellingr will study how the ionosphere, a region in Earth’s upper atmosphere, interacts with the Sun. Before launch, Dellingr is required to visit to the Magnetic Test Facility at NASA Goddard to test the spacecraft's magnetometers - key instruments for measuring the direction and strength of the magnetic fields that surround Earth.

The spacecraft is scheduled to launch this August aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket to the International Space Station where it will be deployed later into a low-Earth orbit.

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Dellingr is purposely designed to be more reliable than more widely used CubeSat platforms and will gather data about the Sun's influence on Earth's upper atmospehre.

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On Nov. 20, 2017, the Dellingr CubeSat was deployed from the International Space Station and released into a low-Earth orbit to monitor the Sun's impact on Earth's upper atmosphere.

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On Nov. 20, 2017, the Dellingr CubeSat was deployed from the International Space Station and released into a low-Earth orbit to monitor the Sun's impact on Earth's upper atmosphere.

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AGU Ionosphere Press Conference
NASA to Launch New Small Satellite Missions to do Real Science

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https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2017/nasa-set-to-launch-dellingr-cubesat-purposely-designed-to-improve-reliability-of-small-0

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2017/nasa-begins-checkout-of-dellingr-spacecraft-designed-to-improve-robustness-of-cubesat

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Scientists:
Emil Lawrence Kepko (NASA/GSFC)
Charles E Clagett (NASA/GSFC)

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Joy Ng (USRA)

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Lori J. Keesey (SGT)

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Keywords:
SVS >> HDTV
GCMD >> Earth Science >> Sun-earth Interactions >> Ionosphere/Magnetosphere Particles
GCMD >> Location >> Ionosphere
NASA Science >> Sun
SVS >> Magnetometer
GCMD >> Earth Science >> Sun-earth Interactions >> Ionosphere/Magnetosphere Dynamics
SVS >> Dellingr
SVS >> CubeSat
SVS >> Magnetic Test Facility
SVS >> Micro Satellite

GCMD keywords can be found on the Internet with the following citation: Olsen, L.M., G. Major, K. Shein, J. Scialdone, S. Ritz, T. Stevens, M. Morahan, A. Aleman, R. Vogel, S. Leicester, H. Weir, M. Meaux, S. Grebas, C.Solomon, M. Holland, T. Northcutt, R. A. Restrepo, R. Bilodeau, 2013. NASA/Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Earth Science Keywords. Version 8.0.0.0.0