Hermes 1 Satellite

Hermes 1
Hermes 1
Spacecraft name Hermes 1
Form factor CubeSat
Units or mass 1U
Status Launch failure
Launched 2011-03-04
NORAD ID Launch failure
Deployer P-POD (Poly-Picosatellite Orbital Deployer)
Launcher Minotaur-C (Taurus-XL)
Organization University of Colorado Boulder
Institution University
Entity Academic / Education
Nation US
Launch brokerer Cal Poly, ?
Oneliner

Demonstrate CubeSat platform technologies and high data-rate communication system.

Description

Improve CubeSat communications through the on-orbit testing of a high data-rate communication system that will allow the downlink of large quantities of data, making CubeSat imaging or high-data quantity science easily feasible.

Another objective of the project is to create a reproducible and extensible spacecraft bus in the support of future missions. The final specified mission objective is to characterize the typical CubeSat environment. This will occur through the gathering of temperature and magnetic field data throughout the flight.

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