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MOTHER-FUCKING CUBESATS!!!! 2016-03-27 18:18:16 Post No. 34422
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> An astrophysicist at NASA's Goddard Flight Center and his undergraduate student at Howard University in Washington, DC. want to use a tiny satellite called a CubeSat to search for undiscovered planets orbiting the star Beta Pictoris.
> The star is already known to have one planet. Beta Pictoris b, a gas giant of more than 1.5 Jupiter radii, orbiting the star at nine times Earth-Sun distance, a position much like Saturn's orbit around the Sun.
https://thespacereporter.com/2016/02/cubesats-used-search-exoplanets/
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>>34422
yeah according to this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CubeSat , NASA has a backlog of 50 or so of these CubeSats from various schools awaiting launch. It makes me wonder what happens when their life expectancy runs out and they become very tiny spacejunk.
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>>34437
They all become like the tiny toaster goes to Mars movie, only in real life.
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>>34439
what the fuck
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>>34462
It was Pinocchio...
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>>34422
>earth-sun distance
that would be an Astrometric Unit sir
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