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- Spacecraft Name
- MinXSS
- COSPAR ID
- 1998-067HU
- Launch Date
- 2015-12-06 (Launch), 2016-05-16 (Deployment)
- Spacecraft Description
- Miniature X-ray Solar Spectrometer (MinXSS) is a 3U CubeSat with the primary science instrument, a modified Amptek X-123 silicon drift detector soft X-ray spectrometer. MinXSS-1 was launched on 2015-12-06 to the ISS, and deployed from the airlock on 2016-05-16. MinXSS-1 has been stably sun pointed for the entire mission, which ended on 2017-05-06.
Thermal Analysis
- Analysis Object
- System
- Analysis Description
- N/A
- Software Used
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References
- Mason et al. (2018)
James Paul Mason and Bret Lamprecht and Thomas N. Woods and Chloe Downs, "CubeSat On-Orbit Temperature Comparison to Thermal-Balance-Tuned-Model Predictions", Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer, 2018 , DOI: 10.2514/1.T5169