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NASA's Nanosail-D 'Sails' Home -- Mission Complete

After spending more than 240 days "sailing" around the Earth, NASA's NanoSail-D -- a nanosatellite that deployed NASA's first-ever solar sail in low-Earth orbit -- has successfully completed its Earth orbiting mission.
The flight phase of the mission successfully demonstrated a deorbit capability that could potentially be used to bring down decommissioned satellites and space debris by re-entering and totally burning up in the Earth's atmosphere.
NanoSail-D orbited the Earth for 240 days performing well beyond expectations and burned up during reentry to Earth's atmosphere on Sept. 17.
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For more information about decoding satellite beacon packets:
GeneSat-- click here.
PharmaSat-- click here.
O/OREOS-- click here
NanoSail-D-- click here

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Update - NANOSAIL-D as ejected beacon DATA has been received

TLE Data
NANOSAILD
 1 90027U 0        11020.08293137 -.00000469 +00000-0 -58126-4 0 00027
 2 90027 071.9753 005.7427 0021680 201.8671 158.1355 14.77033912000116

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NanoSail-D Ejects: NASA Seeks Amateur Radio Operators' Aid to Listen for Beacon Signal
Wednesday, Jan. 19 at 11:30 a.m. EST, engineers at Marshall Space Flight Centre in Huntsville, Ala., confirmed that the NanoSail-D nanosatellite ejected from Fast Affordable Scientific and Technology Satellite, FASTSAT. The ejection event occurred spontaneously and was identified this morning when engineers at the centre analysed onboard FASTSAT telemetry. The ejection of NanoSail-D also has been confirmed by ground-based satellite tracking assets.



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NASA has concluded that its football-sized NanoSail-D satellite failed to eject from another satellite earlier this month.
The Marshall Space Flight Centre had said Dec. 6 that it had accomplished the first successful launch of a satellite from a satellite with the NanoSail-D experiment.
The agency backed off that claim a few days later, saying it was not clear if the deployment had occurred.
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NanoSail-D Mission Status Update for Dec. 10

At this time, it is not clear that NanoSail-D ejected from the Fast, Affordable, Science and Technology Satellite (FASTSAT ) as originally stated on Monday, Dec. 6. At the time of ejection, spacecraft telemetry data showed a positive ejection as reflected by confirmation of several of the planned on orbit ejection sequence events. The FASTSAT spacecraft ejection system data was also indicative of an ejection event. NanoSail-D was scheduled to unfurl on Dec. 9 at 12:30 a.m., and deployment hasn't been confirmed. The FASTSAT team is continuing to trouble shoot the inability to make contact with NanoSail-D. The FASTSAT microsatellite and all remaining five onboard experiments continue to operate as planned.
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NASA Ejects Nanosatellite From Microsatellite in Space

On Dec. 6 at 1:31 a.m. EST, NASA for the first time successfully ejected a nanosatellite from a free-flying microsatellite. NanoSail-D ejected from the Fast, Affordable, Science and Technology Satellite, or FASTSAT, demonstrating the capability to deploy a small cubesat payload from an autonomous microsatellite in space. The successful ejection of NanoSail-D demonstrates the operational capability of FASTSAT as a cost-effective independent means of placing cubesat payloads into orbit safely.
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If you miss the Narrow Cape rocket launch on Friday, you might still be able to see part of the rocket's payload on the way down.
The NanoSailD, one of the smallest satellites on the mission, will be visible in the weeks after the launch, and is the subject of an international photography competition.
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NASA hopes to launch two satellites from Kodiak later this week. 
A rocket is scheduled to launch from the Alaska Aerospace Corp.'s Kodiak launch complex between 4:30 and 6 p.m. on Friday.
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