Basic Specifications:
  • 150 kg smallsat
  • 330 km Sun Synchronous orbit
  • Electric propulsion
  • 300W  pivoting solar panels 
  • 6 year lifetime 
  • Passive cold plate
  • Multi-core computer with ECC DRAM​ and FPGA
  • Two 2 TB NVMe solid state drives
  • 10 Gbps pixel bus
  • OLED selfie screen
  • Space selfie solar panel camera
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     Communications
  • Globalstar radios for commands and telemetry
  • Optical uplink and  downlink, multiple passes per day
  • Optical error corrected data transfers at 100 Mb/s
  • Custom optical ground stations 
  • Small size, low weight, low power, and low complexity custom on-board satellite laser comm optics and electronics
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​ Aiming/stabilization
  • 4 momentum wheels
  • 4 control moment gyros
  • 3 magnetic torquers
  • 2 Star cameras
  • 2 GPS antennae, located on the opposite ends of the spacecraft
     Optical Specifications​
  • Modified Dall-Kirkham telescope​
  • 20" (50 cm) Zerodur primary mirror
  • 48 MP visible/NIR main camera with stellar guide chips and sub-pixel imager nanopositioners
  • 10 MP UV/visible/NIR high sensitivity camera with stellar guide chips  and sub-pixel imager nanopositioners
  • 150 band hyper-spectral imager
  • 0.25 arc second IFOV
  • Native 40 cm GSD pan and multispectral
  • Super-resolution 30 cm GSD pan and multispectral
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24 Position Filter Wheel
  • Five stripe B, G, R, Red edge, I  
  • Coastal Blue
 
  • polarizer
  • grism
 
  • H-alpha
  • H-beta
  • O-III
  • N-II
  • S-II
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  • UV 200-300nm
  • Sloan u'
  • Sloan g'
  • Sloan r'
  • Sloan i'
  • Sloan z'



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5 watt reference laser
5 watt reference laser from the ground station.
Testing the selfie screen
Testing the selfie screen.
Star camera install on prototype
Installing prototype star cam
Quad reaction wheel
Quad Reaction Wheel