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LMPC (AeroCube 9)
LMPC [Aerospace Corp.]
Aerocube 9 (AC9) or LMPC (Linear Mode Photon-counting CubeSat), is a cubesat mission by the Aerospace Corporation of El Segundo to demonstrate a cryocooler and a photon counting sensor array.
The LMPC mission consists of a 3U Cubesat with the mission to demonstrate a NASA funded 2×8 pixel array of HgCdTe APDs with photon sensitivities at 1, 1.5, and 2 microns, to measure detector dark current and radiation dosage throughout the mission, to demonstrate a 77 K cryocooler in a 3U CubeSat, to demonstrate passive radiometric measurements of the earth and to receive uplinked laser lines to measure species absorption.
| Nation: | USA |
|---|---|
| Type / Application: | Technology |
| Operator: | Aerospace Corporation |
| Contractors: | Aerospace Corporation |
| Equipment: | |
| Configuration: | CubeSat (3U) |
| Propulsion: | |
| Power: | 2 deployable fixed solar arrays, batteries |
| Lifetime: | |
| Mass: | 3 kg |
| Orbit: |
| Satellite | COSPAR | Date | LS | Launch Vehicle | Remarks | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LMPC (AeroCube 9, AC 9) | - | with ? |
References:
- Richard P. Welle, David Hinkley: The Aerospace Nano/PicoSatellite Program
Further AeroCube missions:
- AeroCube 1
- AeroCube 2
- AeroCube 3
- AeroCube 4A, 4B, 4C
- AeroCube 5A, 5B, 5C
- AeroCube 6A, 6B (CubeRAD A, B)
- AeroCube 7A, 7B, 7C (OCSD A, B, C)
- AeroCube 8A, 8B, 8C, 8D (IMPACT A, B, C, D)
- AeroCube 9 (LMPC)
- AeroCube 10A, 10B (JimSat, DougSat)
- AeroCube 11A, 11B (TOMSat EagleScout, TOMSat R3)
- AeroCube 12A, 12B
- AeroCube 14A, 14B (IMPACT 2A, 2B)
- AeroCube 15A, 15B (Rogue Alpha, Beta)
- AeroCube 16A, 16B
