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Tiny ASTERIA Satellite Spots Exoplanet In Transit, A First For CubeSat Technology


Tiny ASTERIA Satellite Spots Exoplanet In Transit, A First For CubeSat Technology The mini-spacecraft known as CubeSats are capable of many wondrous things, just like the MarCO twin satellites, the first-ever to leave Earth’s orbit and set out on a journey toward Mars, have recently proven. One other soldier in the brave CubeSat army has now reached another type of milestone, becoming the first to measure the transit of an exoplanet, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge announced in a news release. The tiny satellite is dubbed ASTERIA, short for Arcsecond Space Telescope Enabling Research in Astrophysics, and was developed by MIT together with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.   More



(Source: The Inquisitr - Aug 20)

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