HERMES

 

HERMES [CoSGC]

Hermes plans to improve CubeSat communications through the on-orbit testing of a high data-rate communication system that will allow the downlink of large quantities of data, making CubeSat imaging or high-data quantity science easily feasible.

Another objective of the project is to create a reproducible and extensible spacecraft bus in the support of future missions. This will allow future CoSGC CubeSat teams to focus more on the science aspects of low-earth orbit spaceflight, rather than the logistics of designing a spacecraft.

Similarly, the final specified mission objective is to characterize the typical CubeSat environment. This will occur through the gathering of temperature and magnetic field data throughout the flight.

 

Nation: USA
Type / Application: Technology
Operator: Colorado Space Grant Consortium (CoSGC)
Contractors: Colorado Space Grant Consortium (CoSGC)
Equipment:
Configuration: CubeSat
Propulsion:
Lifetime:
Mass: 1 kg
Orbit:

 

Satellite Date LS   Launcher Remarks:
HERMES 2010 Va 576E Taurus-3110 with Glory, E1P, KySat 1

 

Last update: 27.09.2009
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