AEROCUBE 8C

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AEROCUBE 8C is classified as:

Experimental

NORAD ID: 41853

Int'l Code: 2016-067F

Perigee: 577.2 km

Apogee: 591.4 km

Inclination: 97.9 °

Period: 96.2 minutes

Semi major axis: 6955 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 41853U 16067F   19176.19115961 -.00000185  00000-0 -10857-4 0  9999
2 41853  97.9173 273.6418 0010181  12.1447 348.0017 14.96678703142865

Source of the keplerian elements: AFSPC