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The first satellites funded by a Kickstarter campaign are getting ready for their scheduled launch in September 2013. ChipSats are free-flying microsatellites approximately the size of two postage stamps. <\/p>\n
Created by students at Cornell University, ChipSats will serve a variety of functionalities but most of them will send a beacon signal, similar to what the Sputnik used to do. The ultimate goal is to create a ChipSat sensor cloud to collect data from Earth\u2019s orbit. <\/p>\n
The 250 satellites were in part funded through the crowdfunding website Kickstarter, with a total of $70,000 in contributions in 60 days. However, the total cost for the project is an estimated $300,000. The rest of the costs are being covered through NASA<\/strong>\u2019s educational launch program. <\/p>\n SpaceX<\/strong>\u2019s Falcon 9 will take the ChipSats into LEO in its third resupply mission to the International Space Station. The satellites will travel inside a CubeSat, which will deploy them through a spring-loaded system, similar to a jack-in-the-box; the Chip Satellites will then float in space on their own. <\/p>\n The mission will use CDMA cell phone technology to allow all the satellites to communicate to a central ground station at the same time. ChipSats\u2019 mission is expected to last two weeks, after which they will burn up in Earth\u2019s atmosphere. <\/p>\n \n Tags: NASA, SpaceX, Cubesat, Nanosatellite Publication Date: 11\/28\/2012 ChipSat\u2019s composition. Image credit: Zachary Manchester The first satellites funded by a Kickstarter campaign are getting ready for their scheduled launch in September 2013. ChipSats are free-flying microsatellites approximately the size of two postage stamps. Created by students at Cornell University, ChipSats will serve a variety of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81967"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81967\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"\/Assets\/Image\/FullStoryArrow.png\")
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