Mandrake 1 (Corvus BC5) Spacecraft

Spacecraft name	Mandrake 1 (Corvus BC5)
Type	CubeSat
Units or mass	6U
Status	Reentry 2024-03-28. Was operational? (News about operations from 2021-05-12)
Launched	2020-11-20
NORAD ID	46931
Deployer	Maxwell [Rocket Lab]
Launcher	Electron
Organisation	DARPA
Institution	Military
Entity	Government (Civil / Military)
Nation	US
Manufacturer	AIVT by Astro Digital
Partners	Astro Digital
Oneliner
Description	Carries supercomputer processing chips.
Results	he fully operational orbital platform, launched Fall 2020, affords risk buy-down for future Blackjack payloads and has shown success executing a tactical maritime experiment demonstrating engineering complexities such as mission autonomy, over-the-air (OTA) updates, massless payload deployment, and sensor edge processing and exploitation, all of which are enabled by the SEAKR payload incorporating a high-performance multi-core Advanced RISC Machines (ARM) processor and multiple Graphic Processing Units (GPUs).
Notes	Damaged during Transporter-1 processing. Previously only shown as Corvus-BC 5.
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Photo sources	[1]
COTS subsystems	PLATFORM - Astro Digital
Keywords	Ka-band
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Last modified: 2024-12-17