[AR] Re: Thursday's Dnepr cluster launch
- From: Ian Garcia <ianmga@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2013 13:23:08 -0800
Great article! Thanks for pointing it out
On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 12:05 PM, Henry Spencer <henry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> <http://www.spaceflight101.com/denpr-2013-cluster-launch-updates.html> is
> a well-done article about the Dnepr cluster launch a couple of days ago.
> Among numerous :-) other payloads, it carried another of our little
> astronomy satellites, BRITE-PL (aka Lem). The launch went fine, and the
> satellite is healthy and starting commissioning.
>
> (BRITE-PL final assembly was done in Poland, by the customer, but we
> supplied design, parts, training, and support. It's more or less a
> duplicate of the two BRITEs that were launched in February. There are two
> or three more to come. The mission is precision photometry of bright
> stars, studying their variation and oscillations, more or less following
> on from our first satellite, MOST; the restriction to bright stars is
> simply because the telescopes are pretty small and they can't collect
> enough light for precise measurements except from fairly bright sources.)
>
> Henry Spencer
> henry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> (hspencer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx)
> (regexpguy@xxxxxxxxx)
>
>
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Ian M Garcia
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