Space Technology 5

The three small spacecraft of Space Technology 5 (or ST5) were launched on March 22, 2006 using a Pegasus XL rocket. These were developed by NASA Goddard Space Flight Center as part of NASA's New Millennium program.

There are 10 new technologies that will be tested by this set of microsatellites. [http://nmp.jpl.nasa.gov/st5/TECHNOLOGY/enabling.html] . One technology involves antennas that were designed by computers using an evolutionary AI system developed at NASA Ames Research Center. The ST5 on-board flight computer, the C&DH (Command & Data Handling) system, is based on a Mongoose-V radiation-hardened microprocessor.

On June 30, 2006, the satellites making up ST5 were shut down after successfully completing their technology validation mission.

References

*Speer, D. and G. Jackson and D. Raphael, "Flight Computer Design for the Space Technology 5 (ST-5) Mission," Proceedings of the 2002 IEEE Aerospace Conference, Big Sky, MT, March 2002.

ee also

*List of spaceflights (2006)

External links

* [http://nmp.jpl.nasa.gov/st5/ Space Technology 5 JPL NMP page]
* [http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/st-5/main/ Space Technology 5 NASA page]
* [http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/profile.cfm?MCode=ST5 Space Technology 5 Profile] by [http://solarsystem.nasa.gov NASA's Solar System Exploration]
* [http://directory.eoportal.org/pres_ST5SpaceTechnology5.html Space Technology 5 eoPortal Directory page] – Based on Herbert J. Kramer's "Observation of the Earth and Its Environment: Survey of Missions and Sensors", updated electronic edition 2006
* [http://ti.arc.nasa.gov/story.php?id=86 NASA Ames Research Center's Intelligent Systems Division]
* [http://www.spaceflightnow.com/pegasus/st5/status.html SpaceFlightNow.com Coverage of Launch]