| 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 |
| Sources | [1] [2] [3] |
| Photo sources | [1] |
| On the same launch |
Last modified: 2024-05-29
