Here the NASA engineering team behind DiskSat talk about the successful launch of 4 of the new Spacecraft and how they're still operating.
https://screenrant.com/nasa-disksat-flat-spacecraft-tested-launched-orbit/
Here the NASA engineering team behind DiskSat talk about the successful launch of 4 of the new Spacecraft and how they're still operating.
https://screenrant.com/nasa-disksat-flat-spacecraft-tested-launched-orbit/
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Cool stuff. Terrible writing though:
>The DiskSat demo mission launched aboard a Rocket Lab Electron rocket, the small satellite launch vehicle NASA used to deploy the four DiskSats into orbit.
o_o
I hope there is more official info out there beyond Screenrant. Also, as much as I hate to say it, the pez dispenser on Starship would work really well for this if they were scaled up.
NASA had one of these on display at the SmallSat Conference in Salt Lake City last August. Was pretty cool to see. Rocket Lab also was advertising their variant of a “Disk Satellite” which they dubbed the “Flatellite”. Though Rocket Lab’s variant had deployable arrays. Seems like many are getting on board the flat volume wave – probably inspired by Starlink
I was under the impression this is an Aerospace Corporation project, not NASA.
https://aerospace.org/disksat