15 Sep
2009
15 Sep
'09
10:25 p.m.
... in-orbit maneuvering with other spacecraft ... Sat A, changes orbit to rendezvous with Sat B ...
Two cubesats, BEVO1 (University of Texas) and AggieSat-2 (Texas A and M University) deployed earlier this summer were the first phase of developing this type of rendezvous capability:
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/science/experiments/DRAGONSat.html http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqM3Wq_ijw8
After deployment the two satellites did not separate from each other.
-- 73 de JoAnne K9JKM k9jkm@amsat.org Editor, AMSAT News Service Copy Editor, AMSAT Journal