Stanford and NASA Launch Tiny IoT Satellites Into Earth’s Orbit

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Stanford and NASA Launch Tiny IoT Satellites Into Earth’s Orbit
How Could These IoT Satellites Facilitate Research?
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Stanford and NASA Launch Tiny IoT Satellites Into Earth’s Orbit KaylaMatthews Follow Jul 22 · 4 min read
In June 2019, a partnership between Stanford University and NASA resulted in dozens of miniature satellites getting launched into orbit.
How Could These IoT Satellites Facilitate Research?
NASA calls these centimeter-scale satellites sprites or ChipSats.
One of the outstanding things about this use of IoT technology is that the satellites can get into a part of Earth’s atmosphere called the mesosphere.
The things scientists learn about the Earth and its climate through these minuscule satellites could also carry over to support other work related to space exploration or nature.
Moreover, these IoT satellites could send communications and data-collection tools to other planets, such as Mars.
The satellite that houses and deploys the sensors is called a CubeSat.
This recent launch of the IoT satellites was part of the CubeSat Launch Initiative (CSLI).
For the IoT ChipSats mission, the CubeSat satellite had two compartments and three units.
Back in 2009 when studying at Stanford, Manchester got inspired to try and create a satellite in a device that was cheaper and easier to build than a CubeSat. A couple of years later, he put his project — called KickSat — onto Kickstarter, where 315 backers contributed about $75,000 to the cause.
Then, in 2014, Manchester sent the first of his tiny, economical satellites into orbit.
Unfortunately, though, an engineering issue made the satellites reenter the Earth’s atmosphere too early, destroying them before deployment.
They put 105 of them into a CubeSat satellite and sent it to the International Space Station on Nov. 17, 2018, to await the go-ahead for launch.
After that, Manchester and his team tracked the satellites until March 21, when the disposable satellites came back into the Earth’s atmosphere and burned up

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