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    "sender_name": "Eric Rosenberg",
    "subject": "[amsat-bb] 'Carbonite' space imager revealed",
    "date": "2015-09-21T21:46:57Z",
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    "content": " From the BBC: http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-34315725\n\nEnjoy!\nEric W3DQ\n---------------------\n\nScience & Environment\n'Carbonite' space imager revealed\nBy Jonathan Amos BBC Science Correspondent\n\nUK small satellite manufacturer SSTL has released details of the spacecraft\nit launched in July, but about which it gave few details at the time.\n\nCodenamed Carbonite, the 80kg platform filled some unused mass on the\nrocket that put up the company's new high-resolution imaging constellation.\n\nIt turns out the additional passenger was a demonstrator for a new type of\nquick-build, ultra-low-cost satellite.\n\nCarbonite uses an off-the-shelf camera and telescope to take videos of\nEarth.\n\nIt acquires still pictures as well. Both modes show features on the ground\ndown to a size of 1.5m.\n\nHowever, if flown in a 500km-high orbit, this would be a 1m\nground-resolution.\n\nCarbonite's mission was revealed at last week's World Satellite Business\nWeek conference in Paris, organised by Euroconsult.\n\nThe intention is to compete the platform in the emerging Earth-observation\nmarket for daily, fast-turn-around imagery.\n\nThis is a market being targeted currently by a number of Silicon Valley\noperations, including Skybox-Google and Planet Labs, and requires the use\nof multiple satellites in orbit.\n\nCarbonite-1 was built and tested in six months.\n\nIts camera and telescope, which has a 25cm mirror, were both bought online\nand then adapted so they would cope with the harsh environment of space.\n\nIt also incorporates a drag sail, which will be deployed at the end of its\nmission to pull it out of orbit.\nFill-in role\n\nSSTL says more Carbonite missions are already in development.\n\nThe goal is to reduce the mass to 50kg, and to get the build time down to\nunder three months.\n\nThe cost will have to be lowered, too. The aim there is to turn Carbonites\nout for well less than a million pounds.\n\n\"That will depend on what level of sophistication the customer wants,\" said\nLuis Gomes, the head of Earth observation at SSTL.\n\n\"What Carbonite is about is filling in the blanks, and doing it in a timely\nway,\" he told BBC News. (If there is cloud in the way, the ground cannot be\nseen by an optical satellite).\n\n\"There is a lot of hype out there about some of these new systems - that\nthey can do everything.\n\n\"No, they can't, but for certain applications, they will nevertheless\nperform a role in supporting more capable constellations.\"\n\nSSTL has not released publicly the imagery acquired by the demonstrator in\nthe last few weeks.\n\nThe Guildford company says it has been busy getting its own new DMC3\nimaging constellation ready for operation and wants more time to work with\nthe Carbonite product before showing it off more widely.\n\nFor those wondering where they may have heard the word \"carbonite\" before -\none use was for a fictional substance in the Star Wars film The Empire\nStrikes Back.\n\nThe material was used by the Empire to freeze the body of smuggler and\nrebel leader Han Solo.\n\[email protected]  <https://twitter.com/#%21/BBCAmos>\n",
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