Centennial-1 Satellite

Centennial-1
Centennial-1
Satellite Centennial-1
Form factor CubeSat
Units or mass 1U
Status Reentry 2016-01-06. No signal? (Unable to find any confirmations after deployment, which usually is not good news)
Launched 2015-04-14
NORAD ID 40743
Deployer NRCSD (NanoRacks CubeSat Deployer) [Quad-M]
Launcher Falcon 9
Deployment Deployed from ISS on 2015-07-15
Organization Booz Allen Hamilton
Institution Company
Entity Commercial
Country US
Launch brokerer Nanoracks
Oneliner

Demonstrate small optical sensor package.

Description

Developed during Booz Allen’s one hundredth year as a corporation, the “Centennial-1” CubeSat is an internal company technology demonstration experiment to test a small optical sensor package including small photodetectors and a small camera as payload on a 1U CubeSat. Staff engineers and college interns are designing and building Centennial-1

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Photo sources [1]
On the same launch

Last modified: 2024-05-29

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