In the few days since it was deployed it has increased its eccentricity, reducing perigee by 5km and increasing apogee by 4. I don’t know what their flight plan is but it would be nice to see the opposite, and bring the perigee up as much as possible.
It’s a bit surprising that they decided to launch a solar sail into LEO during solar maximum.
I can’t actually find any explanation of their objective other than deployment, I should probably just email the people at Ames.
Ben Brockert /
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2024-09-03 16:38:41
in reply to nevent1q…9jr3
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