Swarm of 105 tiny Sprite ChipSats successfully deployed

If you thought SpaceX launching 60 Starlink satellites at once was impressive, Cornell University has managed 105 small satellites. The ChipSats, called Sprites, forming a swarm of cracker-sized nanosatellites were deployed from the Kicksat-2 CubeSat on March 18, 2019 at an altitude of 300 km (186 mi) and contact was established by Stanford University and NASA Ames engineers the next day by a Cornell satellite ground station... Continue Reading Swarm of 105 tiny Sprite ChipSats successfully deployed Category: Space Tags: Cornell University CubeSat Satellite Spacecraft