{"id":10545,"date":"2017-04-19T12:10:34","date_gmt":"2017-04-19T01:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=10545"},"modified":"2017-04-19T12:10:34","modified_gmt":"2017-04-19T01:40:34","slug":"solar-cubesats-australia-mb0002","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/solar-cubesats-australia-mb0002\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian-Built Solar Powered Nanosatellites Launched"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dr Matthew Tetlow and the solar-powered CubeSat : University of Adelaide<\/p><\/div>\n

Early this morning Australian time, the first Aussie-built satellites to be launched for 15 years left terra firma from Cape Canaveral in Florida.<\/p>\n

One of the tiny nanosatellites, or CubeSats, was built at University of Adelaide and is being delivered along with two other locally-made devices by NASA on an Atlas V rocket bound for the International Space Station.<\/p>\n

After approximately a month at the ISS, the devices will be deployed into the thermosphere. The thermosphere, which extends from about 95 km\u00a0 to between 500 and 1,000 km above the Earth, is a layer of the atmosphere we don’t know a lot about.<\/p>\n

University of Adelaide’s CubeSat is equipped to take various measurements to enable researchers to better understand the thermosphere’s relationship to other layers, and how that impacts on climate.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith the miniaturisation of electronics, it\u2019s now possible to put the same amount of research equipment of a full-sized satellite into something that\u2019s about the size of a loaf of bread,\u201d said<\/a> Research Fellow Dr Matthew Tetlow, who led the project. \u201cThe CubeSat can do the same work that a large satellite does at a much reduced cost.\u201d<\/p>\n