Pleiades Yearling 2.0 Spacecraft

Spacecraft name	Pleiades Yearling 2.0 (Pleiades - Squared, PROVES Yearling 2, Pleiades Yearling)
Type	CubeSat
Units or mass	1U
Status	Reentry 2024-08-12. Was operational until 2023-04-22? (Acquisition of signal but suffered mission failure shortly after commissioning as per SmallSat 2023 presentation)
Launched	2023-04-15
NORAD ID	56207
Deployer	EXOpod 12U/16U [Exolaunch]
Launcher	Falcon 9 (Transporter-7)
Entity name	Cal Poly Pomona (Bronco Space)
Institution	University
Entity type	Academic / Education
Headquarters	US
Partners	Stanford Student Space Initiative (SSI), Bronco Space
Oneliner	Fly CubeSat bus and expand on the Pleiades cluster.
Description	Pleiades - Squared has two primary missions. The first is to fly a 1U CubeSat built entirely by students at Cal Poly Pomona. The 1U CubeSat shall be based on the PROVES (Pleaides Rapid Orbital Verification Experimental System) open-source CubeSat architecture being developed for educational use. Pleiades - Squared will also contain additional scientific experiments built by students in laboratories at Cal Poly Pomona. Particularly, this satellite shall carry a low-cost gamma ray detector as part of a particle physics citizen science project known as the Cosmic Watch. Students participating in the Pleiades - Squared mission shall gain valuable experience with the integration, launch, and operation of a spacecraft as a part of their academic experiences. Students, citizen scientists, and radio amateurs who interact with the satellite will also be able to receive and analyze in-space radiation data from the Cosmic Watch experiment. The second is an expansion of the Pleiades CubeSat Cluster Initiative, which exists to develop and demonstrate distributed spacecraft technology. Pleiades - Squared intends join the existing Pleiades Yearling and Sapling Sempervirens CubeSats (previously coordinated with emission designator 125KX1DCN) in demonstrating satellite-to-satellite and satellite-to-satellite-to-ground relays. Depending on final orbital parameters, the ultimate goal will be to conduct store and forward data relay between radio amateurs across the United States.
Notes	Reflight of the Pleiades Yearling after it failed to deploy from Launcher Orbiter after Transporter-6.
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Keywords	Open-source
On the same launch	BRO-9 Brokkr-1 Connecta T2.1 FACSAT-2 INSPIRE-Sat 7 It’s About Time KILICSAT (KILIÇSAT) Lemur-2 164 Lemur-2 165 (Adler-2) Lemur-2 163 (KAUST) LS2f Platform-3 Pleiades - Sapling Giganteum Pleiades Yearling 2.0 RoseyCubesat-1 Space-D DEWA 2 SSS-2B TAIFA-1 ELO-3 EPICHyper-1 Kepler-20 Kepler-21 VCUB1 CIRBE DISCO IRIS-C REVELA VIREO LLITED A LLITED B

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