MiRaTA Satellite

MiRaTA
MiRaTA
Spacecraft name MiRaTA (Microwave Radiometer Technology Acceleration)
Spacecraft type CubeSat
Units or mass 3U
Status Was operational until 2018-01-25, both radios lost. (CubeSat Developers Workshop 2018, listed as Failure in NASA's CubeSat Fleet Missions Database as of 2022-01-01)
Launched 2017-11-14
NORAD ID 43015
Deployer P-POD (Poly-Picosatellite Orbital Deployer)
Launcher Delta II
Organization MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Institution University
Entity Academic / Education
Country US
Launch brokerer Tyvak, ?
Partners NASA Earth Science Technology Office
Oneliner

Validate new technologies in both passive microwave radiometry and GPS radio occultation.

Description

Validate new technologies in both passive microwave radiometry and GPS radio occultation. New ultra-compact and low-power technology for multi-channel and multi-band and passive microwave radiometers and new GPS receiver and patch antenna array technology for GPS radio occultation retrieval of both temperature-pressure profiles in the atmosphere and electron density profiles in the ionosphere. In addition will test a new approach to spaceborne microwave radiometer calibration using adjacent GPSRO measurements.

Results

Marked as Failure in the NASA SmallSat/CubeSat Fleet Missions Database.

Failure cause Lost contact with primary radio and then unsuccessful reprogram of backup radio was last contact.
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On the same launch

Last modified: 2024-05-29

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