First of NASA's SunRISE SmallSats Rolls Off Production Line - NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
8/9/2022 12:00:00 AM2 years 8 months ago
by https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/
by https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/
Six of these small satellites will work together, creating the largest radio telescope ever launched to detect and track hazardous explosive space weather events.
Each small satellite, or SmallSat, will act as a single antenna to detect bursts of radio waves from the Suns superheated atmosphere, known as the corona. Equipped with four telescoping antenna booms… [+1064 chars]
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