On April 18 2017, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center's IceCube 3U CubeSat was launched by an ATLAS V rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on board a Cygnus resupply spacecraft, as part of NASA's CubeSat Launch Initiative. Onboard IceCube was an 883 GHz radiometer tuned to detecting ice content in clouds, marking the first time such frequency was used from low-Earth orbit. IceCube successfully demonstrated retrieval of ice water path, generating the first ever global cloud ice map at 883 GHz. Its success provides valuable lessons on how to approach a severely resource-limited space mission and provides great insight into how this experience can be applied to future high-risk, "non-class" missions for NASA and others. IceCube marks the first official NASA Earth Science CubeSat technology demonstration mission. The spacecraft was completed in about 2.5 years starting April 2014 through launch provider delivery in December of 2016. The mission was jointly funded by NASA's Earth Science Technology Office, after competitive selection, and by NASA's Earth Science Directorate. IceCube began its technology demonstration mission in June 2017, providing a pathway to advancing the understanding of ice clouds and their role in climate models; quite a tall order for a tiny spacecraft.


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    Titel :

    NASA IceCube: CubeSat Demonstration of a Commercial 883-GHz Cloud Radiometer


    Beteiligte:
    J. Esper (Autor:in) / D. Wu (Autor:in) / T. Johnson (Autor:in) / A. Coleman (Autor:in) / N. Ehsan (Autor:in) / J. Piepmeier (Autor:in) / B. Abresch (Autor:in) / B. Flaherty (Autor:in) / C. Purdy (Autor:in) / J. Hudeck (Autor:in)

    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2018


    Format / Umfang :

    15 pages


    Medientyp :

    Report


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch




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