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Mini-satellites aboard shuttle all set for trial run

Clouds of penny-sized satellites sailing the solar wind might one day help warn of approaching sun storms that could knock out power grids.
They could sprinkle onto the moon's surface, or into the atmosphere of Jupiter or Saturn to gather chemical clues about those distant worlds.
Shuttle Endeavour's last flight -- set for Monday -- will deliver the first three prototypes to be mounted on the International Space Station.
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Chip satellites -- designed to blow in the solar wind -- depart on Endeavour's final launch

A group of Cornell-developed, fingernail-sized satellites may travel to Saturn within the next decade, and as they flutter down through its atmosphere, they will collect data about chemistry, radiation and particle impacts.
Three prototypes of these chip satellites, named "Sprite," will be mounted on the International Space Station after the space shuttle Endeavour delivers them on its final flight, which is scheduled to launch at 3:47 p.m. EDT on Friday, April 29.
The thin, 1-inch-square chips, in development for three years in the lab of Mason Peck, associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, will be mounted to the Materials International Space Station Experiment (MISSE-8) pallet, which will be attached to the space station, exposing them to the harsh conditions of space to see how they hold up and transmit data.

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