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CFESat

CFESat [SSTL]

Los Alamos is building the CFESat (Cibola Flight Experiment Satellite), a reconfigurable processor payload intended for a low-Earth orbit system. It will survey portions of the VHF and UHF radio spectra. The experiment uses networks of reprogrammable, field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) to process the received signals for ionospheric and lightning studies. The objective is to detect and measure impulsive events that occur in a complex background.

The experiment also will validate the on-orbit use of commercial, reconfigurable FPGA technology demonstrating several different schemes for the mitigation and correction of “single-event upsets” that would crash most current computer systems.

The U.S. Department of Defense Space Test Program is including the Cibola Flight Experiment satellite as part of the STP-1 space flight mission. The STP-1 mission goal is to provide space-flight opportunity for a maximum number of Department of Defense Space Experiments Review Board payloads on a single launch.

The DoD Space Test Program is responsible for the integration of seven satellites into a single payload stack and launch of the STP-1 mission. The STP-1 mission is scheduled for launch in 2006 on a medium-class Lockheed-Martin Atlas-5(401), an U.S. Air Force Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV), using the EELV's Secondary Payload Adapter (ESPA) that allows small satellites to be launched as “piggyback” passengers with larger spacecraft.

Nation: USA
Type / Application: Technology
Operator: STP (Space Test Program)
Contractors: Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. (SSTL) (bus)
Equipment: CFE
Configuration: SSTL-150
Propulsion:
Power: Solar cells, batteries
Lifetime:
Mass: 163 kg
Orbit: 560 km × 560 km, 35.4°
Satellite COSPAR Date LS Launch Vehicle Remarks
CFESat 2007-006F 09.03.2007 CC SLC-41 Atlas-5(401) with ASTRO, NEXTSat/CSC, STPSat 1, MidSTAR 1, FalconSat 3
Further STP missions:

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