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New FASTSAT Discoveries Paint Detailed View of Region Near Earth

Space around Earth is anything but a barren vacuum. The area seethes with electric and magnetic fields that change constantly. Charged particles flow through, moving energy around, creating electric currents, and producing the aurora. Many of these particles stream in from the solar wind, starting out 93 million miles away on the surface of the sun. But some areas are dominated by particles of a more local source: Earth's atmosphere.
These are the particles being watched by FASTSAT's Miniature Imager for Neutral Ionospheric Atoms and Magnetospheric Electrons (MINI-ME) instrument. For one well-defined event, scientists have compared MINI-ME's observations to those from two other instruments. The event shows a detailed picture of this dynamic region, with a host of interrelated phenomena -- such as electric current and outflowing particles - occurring together.
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Mission Phase

Pre-Launch
~ 5:25 pm PST 11/19/10 Launch
Inside FASTSAT
2215 PST 12/5/10 Ejection Window Open
Eject + 3 days Sail deployed - full comms
Eject + 5 days Sail deployed - no power
L + ~100 days De-orbit


TLE Data 
FASTSAT
 1 37225U 10062D   10339.55430316 +.00000041 +00000-0 +13962-4 0 00217
 2 37225 071.9720 106.1057 0019965 280.4841 079.4053 14.76483442002287

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Sometime early next week, NASA mission controllers in Huntsville will try something new in space - launching a satellite from a satellite.
The mother ship satellite is called FASTSAT, short for Fast Affordable Science and Technology Satellite. It lifted off Nov. 19 from Kodiak Island, Alaska, and is now in orbit 406 miles above the Earth.
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NASA Nanosatellite Studies Life in Space, Demonstrates Technology

NASA is preparing to fly a small satellite about the size of a loaf of bread that could help answer astrobiologys fundamental questions about the origin, evolution, and distribution of life in the universe. The nanosatellite, known as Organism/Organic Exposure to Orbital Stresses, or O/OREOS, is a secondary payload aboard a U.S. Air Force four-stage Minotaur IV rocket planned for launch on Nov. 19, 2010.
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NASA's Newest Microsatellite FASTSAT Launches Successfully

NASA's Fast, Affordable, Science and Technology Satellite, or FASTSAT, launched on Nov. 19 aboard a Minotaur IV rocket from Kodiak Launch Complex on Kodiak Island, Alaska. FASTSAT is a unique platform that can carry multiple small payloads to low-Earth orbit creating opportunities for researchers to conduct low-cost scientific and technology research on an autonomous satellite in space.
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NASA has successfully completed a comprehensive pre-shipment review of the Fast, Affordable, Science and Technology Satellite, or FASTSAT, a small, microsatellite class spacecraft bus that will carry six experiment payloads to low-Earth orbit.
The pre-shipment review was completed in May, demonstrating the flight hardware has successfully passed all environmental and performance tests and is authorized for shipment to the launch site for final integration on the Minotaur IV launch vehicle, built and operated by Orbital Sciences Corporation, Dulles, Va.
Engineers will pack the satellite into a shipping container for delivery in early July to the launch complex in Kodiak, Alaska. FASTSAT is scheduled to launch no earlier than Sept. 1, 2010.
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