TechEdSat-8 Spacecraft - Nanosats Database

Spacecraft name	TechEdSat-8 (TES-8)
Form factor	CubeSat
Units or mass	6U
Status	Reentry 2020-04-20. Was operational until 2019-02-14, 2 weeks (CubeSat Developers Workshop 2019)
Launched	2018-12-05
NORAD ID	44032
Deployer	NRCSD (NanoRacks CubeSat Deployer) [Quad-M]
Launcher	Falcon 9 (CRS-16)
Deployment	Deployed from ISS on 2019-01-31
Organisation	NASA Ames Research Center
Institution	Space agency
Entity type	Government (Civil / Military)
Nation	US
Launch brokerer	Nanoracks
Oneliner	Further develop and demonstrate the Exo-Brake system through full recovery of a payload.
Results	Both versions of the BrainStack payload produced partially successful results; it was confirmed the TX2 payload activated, recorded a video, compressed the file, and wirelessly transferred the data to the S-band radio via Wi-Fi, determined through event logs and verified onboard file transfers. Unfortunately, in both cases the Lunar Radio did not perform as expected, preventing recovery of the full video file as an S-band downlink was never successfully maintained.
Failure cause	Power system anomaly
Notes
Sources	[1] [2]
Photo sources	[1]
Keywords	Globalstar or Iridium or Inmarsat, De-orbit device
On the same launch	CAT A CAT B Delphini-1 Quantum Radar 1 Quantum Radar 2 TechEdSat-8 UNITE

Last modified: 2024-09-07