TechDemoSat in Orbit

TechDemoSat in Orbit

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Nightmare

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5,182 posts

283 months

Tuesday 12th August 2014
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Hi All,

This is very exciting for me, hence im posting it - it may be of some interest to others!

My wife designed and built (with her PHD students and other staff) the de-orbit sail payload for this satellite; which is a totally UK creation from Surrey Satellites carrying all sorts of cool demo payloads doing everything from cosmic ray detection to sea roughness measuring.

I vaguely helped with the initial idea and building the test springs and arms from tape measures and paper, so feel like I can talk about it hehe

orbit video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oaq0CtesItg

more info here: http://www.sstl.co.uk/Missions/TechDemoSat-1--Laun...

Eric Mc

121,779 posts

264 months

Tuesday 12th August 2014
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Will she be sent into space to fix it if it breaks?