Fox-1Cliff and Fox-1D successfully finished environmental testing on
February 8 and are now ready and waiting for delivery to Spaceflight
Industries for integration into their Sherpa payload dispenser which
will be making its maiden flight. Launch is on target to occur in
in the first half of 2016 on a SpaceX Falcon 9.
The CubeSats will be kept in a clean condition sealed in anti-static
bags, opened occasionally to charge the batteries so that they are
fully topped off for delivery.
Launched into a sun synchronous orbit, Fox-1Cliff and Fox-1D will
both carry an FM repeater as Fox-1A (AO-85) has, as well as a camera
experiment built by students at Virginia Tech which will take images
of Earth for downlink in the high speed Data Mode. Fox-1Cliff will
also contain a radiation experiment from Vanderbilt University ISDE
like that in AO-85, and Fox-1D will host the University of Iowa HERCI
(High Energy Radiation CubeSat Instrument) experiment to map the Van
Allen radiation belts.
With Fox-1Cliff and Fox-1D completed, the Fox Engineering Team is
focusing on RadFxSat/Fox-1B which is currently set to launch in
January, 2017.
Källa: ANS