RROCI-2 Spacecraft - Nanosats Database

Spacecraft	RROCI-2 (EWS RROCI, Rapid Revisit Optical Cloud Imager)
Spacecraft type	CubeSat
Units or mass	12U
Status	Operational? (Clear reports not found but object identified as of 2024-05-26)
Launched	2024-03-04
NORAD ID	59106
Deployer	Mercury [Maverick]
Launcher	Falcon 9 (Transporter-10)
Organisation	U.S. Space Force
Institution	Military
Entity	Government (Civil / Military)
Country	US
Manufacturer	AIVT by Orion Space Solutions
Operator	Orion Space Solutions
Launch brokerer	Maverick
Partners	U.S. Space Force's EWS
Oneliner	Demonstrate an Electro-Optical / Infrared (EO/IR) LEO-based cloud characterization solution that supports U.S. warfighter operations.
Description	Electro Optical/Infrared Weather System Rapid Revisit Optical Cloud Imager (EWS RROCI). United States Space Force (USSF) Space Systems Command (SMC) sought a commercial prototype EWS mission capable of characterizing global clouds in near real-time to support Department of Defense operations. SMC selected Orion Space Solutions (OSS), in collaboration with Lockheed Martin; Science and Technology Corporation; Pumpkin, Inc.; and Atmospheric & Environmental Research (AER), for the first phase of the EWS mission to design, develop, and demonstrate its eight (8)-channel RROCI prototype. OSS’ imagery utilizes commercial off-theshelf systems to produce cloud characterization, mitigate weather risk, provide theater weather, and compare payload outputs to existing satellite data from a 12U satellite meeting USSF mission requirements.
Results	In only 15 months after contract award, the EO/IR Weather System (EWS) demonstration CubeSat hit its 'first light' milestone on 12 Jun 2024.
Notes	After the demise of RROCI, the US Space Force issued a follow-on contract to Atmospheric to build, launch, and operate RROCI-2. Atmospheric had some additional components to be able to build a second satellite, which it is doing on an expedited timeframe. Atmospheric recognizes that the federal review process of satellite applications can be lengthy, however, the launch slot in January 2024 is available, and so Atmospheric is trying to finish all of the engineering and regulatory work in time to meet the December 2023 integration date for the launch in January 2024.
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COTS subsystems	PLATFORM - Pumpkin THRUSTER - Benchmark Space Systems
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Keywords	Steerable Solar Arrays, Propulsion
Space photos	[1]
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Last modified: 2024-08-24