Allen, the nanosats are Sparky and Ralphie, the two nanosats of the Three-Corner-Sat mission by U.Colorado-Boulder, Arizona State and New Mexico State. They will do stereo earth imaging with four digital cameras on each satellite, and will test a low-shock separation system. They were originally part of Nanosat-2, and were a stack of three (Petey is now staying on the ground) next to another stack of three called ION-F, the two stacks were to be deployed from Shuttle. With Shuttle grounded, the 3CS team decided to take the Delta flight opp; the ION-F web pages are very out of date so I'm guessing that project is in limbo. Sparky and Ralphie are more formally 3CS-1 and 3CS-2, and are 16 kg hexagonal cylinders about 0.25m high. - Jonathan ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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