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Initial Flight Results of the RAX-2 Satellite

The second Radio Aurora Explorer satellite, RAX-2, is a triple CubeSat studying the formation of plasma irregularities in Earth’s ionosphere. The spacecraft was developed jointly by SRI International and the University of Michigan, and it is the first satellite funded by the National Science Foundation. RAX-2 launched October 28, 2011 and is currently operating on orbit. RAX uses a bistatic rad...

Vibration and Flutter Flight Testing

A mvkrr is made of the techniqws that have been developed or are being developed in the United Kilngdon for flight vibration testing and flight flutter testing aircraft. This includes a description of the instnznentation used for recotiing the Vibratioml response, and a comparative assessment of the vaious methods used for exciting the aircraft in i'lipht flutter tests.

A Historical Overview of Flight Flutter Testing

Results from Navigator GPS Flight Testing for the Magnetospheric MultiScale Mission

The recent delivery of the first Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) Navigator Global Positioning System (GPS) receivers to the Magnetospheric MultiScale (MMS) mission spacecraft is a high water mark crowning a decade of research and development in high-altitude space-based GPS. Preceding MMS delivery, the engineering team had developed receivers to support multiple missions and mission studies,...

Results from the First Flight of Bam

A new instrument, BAM (Balloon-borne Anisotropy Measurement), designed to measure cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropy at medium angular scales was flown for the first time in July of 1995. BAM is unique in that it uses a cryogenic differential Fourier transform spectrometer coupled to a lightweight off-axis telescope. The very successful first flight of BAM demonstrates the potential o...