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NASA's NanoSail-D Satellite Continues to Slowly De-Orbit
NanoSail-D is slowly descending after successfully orbiting the Earth's upper atmosphere since deploying its sail on Jan. 20.
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FASTSAT Mission Update
PISA's magnetometer was called upon to support the main attitude determination and control system (ADCS) on FASTSAT following an anomaly on Feb 16, 2011.
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NASA Nanosatellite Celebrates 100 Days In Space Studying Life
More than one hundred days ago, on Nov. 19, 2010, NASA sent a small satellite about the size of a loaf of bread on an important mission to answer astrobiology’s fundamental questions about the origin, evolution and distribution of life in the universe.
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NASA Partners On Nanosail-D Amateur Astronomy Image Contest
NASA has formed a partnership with Spaceweather.com to engage the amateur astronomy community to submit the best images of the orbiting NanoSail-D solar sail.
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NASA's First Solar Sail NanoSail-D Deploys in Low-Earth Orbit
Engineers at the Marshall Center confirmed that the NanoSail-D nanosatellite successfully deployed its 100-square-foot polymer sail in low-Earth orbit and is operating as planned.
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NanoSail-D Ejects: NASA Seeks Amateur Radio Aid
On Jan. 19, NASA engineers confirmed that the NanoSail-D nanosatellite has ejected from the FASTSAT satellite.
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NanoSail-D Successfully Ejects From Microsatellite
NanoSail-D has deployed from the FASTSAT spacecraft -- NASA's first successful ejection of a nanosatellite from a free-flying microsatellite.
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NASA's Newest Microsatellite FASTSAT Launches Successfully
NASA's Fast, Affordable, Science and Technology Satellite, or FASTSAT, has launched from the Kodiak Launch Complex on Kodiak Island, Alaska.
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Sailing Among the Stars
NASA launch will evaluate how a nanosatellite spacecraft and its payload performs.
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FASTSAT Arrives at Alaska Launch Complex
The Fast, Affordable, Science and Technology Satellite, or FASTSAT, arrived at the Kodiak Launch Complex on Kodiak Island, Alaska, on Aug. 10 from the Marshall Center.
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NASA's FASTSAT Satellite Readies for Alaska
NASA has successfully completed a comprehensive pre-shipment review of FASTSAT, a microsatellite spacecraft that will carry experiments to low-Earth orbit.
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Three FASTSAT Instruments Pass Tests
Three FASTSAT Instruments were tested at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center recently. Known as MINI-ME, PISA and TTI.
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PharmaSat Mission Update, June 12, 2009
The PharmaSat nanosatellite has successfully completed an experiment that could help scientists better understand how effectively drugs work in space.
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NanoSatellites Catch Ride on Rocket
NASA launch will evaluate how a nanosatellite spacecraft and its payload performs.
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Sailing Ships in Space? Maybe.
Later this summer NASA will attempt to deploy and operate the first spacecraft in low Earth orbit propelled only by the power of sunlight.