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V-R3x 1, 2, 3 (Cora, Petrie, Littlefoot)

V-R3x 1, 2, 3 [NASA]

V-R3x is mission consisting of three small satellites to demonstrate new technologies and techniques for radio networking and navigation.

The V-R3x tech demo will demonstrate low-cost and low-SWaP autonomous high-speed cross-linking, ranging, coordinated radiation measurements, and relative topology recovery utilizing three 1U CubeSat. The heart of the tech demo relies on an experimental S-band radio to perform the high-speed cross-link and ranging experiment.

An accompanying high altitude balloon flight will achieve the distance required to verify the link budget parameters and ranging performance.

Nation:	USA
Type / Application:	Technology
Operator:	NASA Ames Research Center
Contractors:	NASA Ames Research Center
Equipment:
Configuration:	CubeSat (1U)
Propulsion:	None
Power:	Solar cells, batteries
Lifetime:	3 month orbital life
Mass:	1 kg
Orbit:

Satellite	COSPAR	Date	LS	Launch Vehicle	Remarks
V-R3x 1 (Cora)	2021-006BC ?	24.01.2021	CC SLC-40	Falcon-9 v1.2 (Block 5)	with Starlink v1.0 R1-1, ..., R1-10, QPS-SAR 2, Capella 3, 4, ICEYE X8, X9, XR 1, GHGSat C2, Hawk 2A, 2B, 2C, Sherpa-FX 1, ION-SCV 002, AII-Charlie, Hiber 4, ASELSAT, PIXL 1, SOMP 2b, IDEASSat, YUSAT 1, UVSQ-SAT, V-R3x 2, 3, Flock-4s 1, ..., 48, Kepler 8, ..., 15, Astrocast 0101, ..., 0105, SpaceBEE 40, ..., 75, Lemur-2 130, ..., 137, PTD 1, Prometheus-2 10, ARCE 1A, 1B, 1C
V-R3x 2 (Petrie)	2021-006BG ?	24.01.2021	CC SLC-40	Falcon-9 v1.2 (Block 5)	with Starlink v1.0 R1-1, ..., R1-10, QPS-SAR 2, Capella 3, 4, ICEYE X8, X9, XR 1, GHGSat C2, Hawk 2A, 2B, 2C, Sherpa-FX 1, ION-SCV 002, AII-Charlie, Hiber 4, ASELSAT, PIXL 1, SOMP 2b, IDEASSat, YUSAT 1, UVSQ-SAT, V-R3x 1, 3, Flock-4s 1, ..., 48, Kepler 8, ..., 15, Astrocast 0101, ..., 0105, SpaceBEE 40, ..., 75, Lemur-2 130, ..., 137, PTD 1, Prometheus-2 10, ARCE 1A, 1B, 1C
V-R3x 3 (Littlefoot)	2021-006DQ ?	24.01.2021	CC SLC-40	Falcon-9 v1.2 (Block 5)	with Starlink v1.0 R1-1, ..., R1-10, QPS-SAR 2, Capella 3, 4, ICEYE X8, X9, XR 1, GHGSat C2, Hawk 2A, 2B, 2C, Sherpa-FX 1, ION-SCV 002, AII-Charlie, Hiber 4, ASELSAT, PIXL 1, SOMP 2b, IDEASSat, YUSAT 1, UVSQ-SAT, V-R3x 1, 2, Flock-4s 1, ..., 48, Kepler 8, ..., 15, Astrocast 0101, ..., 0105, SpaceBEE 40, ..., 75, Lemur-2 130, ..., 137, PTD 1, Prometheus-2 10, ARCE 1A, 1B, 1C

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NASA: What is V-R3x?

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