Orbital Factory II Satellite - Nanosats Database

Spacecraft name	Orbital Factory 2 (Orbital Factory II, OF-2, OF2)
Spacecraft type	CubeSat
Units or mass	1U
Status	Reentry 2023-03-20. Was operational (Official news as of 2020-04-10)
Launched	2019-11-02
NORAD ID	45113
Deployer	NRCSD-E (External NanoRacks CubeSat Deployer)
Launcher	Antares (ELaNa 25) (NG-12)
Deployment	Deployed from Cygnus on 2020-01-31
Organisation	University of Texas at El Paso
Institution	University
Entity type	Academic / Education
Country	US
Partners	ULA
Oneliner	Test additive manufacturing utilizing conductive polymers to perform the simulated repair of a solar array junction in orbit.
Description	Test additive manufacturing — or 3D printing — utilizing conductive polymers to perform the simulated repair of a solar array junction in orbit. Flight-demonstrate a 3D-printed capacitor and patch antenna, Electron Emission Film and Surface Charging Monitor. Establish ground uplink/downlink communication though primary UHF link, Providing UTEP engineering students experiences in satellite tracking and communications / telemetry concepts. Demonstrate and observe operation of printing mechanism though visual (onboard camera) and electrical continuity validation. Secondary: Command S-Band DL transmission. Acquiring OF-2 printer data, sensor data and images. Demonstrate OF-2 software reconfiguration and RTOS reset via UHF UL. The S-band downlink is a demonstration and characterization activity for an experimental s-band antenna design. Designed to work in the S-band ISM band, this activity has the potential to extend the body of knowledge about S band antennas that would potentially support amateur operations.
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COTS subsystems	SOLAR PANELS - EnduroSat
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Keywords	Additive manufacturing
On the same launch	AeroCube-14A AeroCube-14B AeroCube-15A AeroCube-15B HARP HuskySat-1 MVP Argus Orbital Factory II Phoenix CubeSat RadSat-u SOCRATES SwampSat II

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