AEROCUBE 8D

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AEROCUBE 8D is classified as:

Experimental

NORAD ID: 41852

Int'l Code: 2016-067E

Perigee: 574.8 km

Apogee: 590.3 km

Inclination: 98.0 °

Period: 96.2 minutes

Semi major axis: 6953 km

RCS: Unknown

Launch date: November 11, 2016
Source: United States (US)
Launch site: AIR FORCE WESTERN TEST RANGE (AFWTR)

AEROCUBE 8 is part of the small satellite program of The Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, California. The AeroCube program deploys small satellites for technical demonstrations. Each of the two AeroCube 8 satellites is 1.5 Units in size and hosts a new electric propulsion system, new nanotechnologies and new innovative solar cell technologies that are to be tested in an operational space environment. The AEROCUBE 8 satellites demonstrate a Scalable ion-Electrospray Propulsion System (SiEPro) that is based on the extraction and acceleration of heavy ions using strong electric fields applied at the interface between the propellant and the vacuum of space. The system uses field evaporation to generate charged particles which has the advantage of not needing any reaction volume for the production of ions.

1 41852U 16067E   21166.28826925  .00000623  00000-0  59096-4 0  9992
2 41852  97.9544 284.8594 0011149 117.9397 242.2954 14.97230578250745

Source of the keplerian elements: AFSPC