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RamSat [Oak Ridge Public Schools]
The RamSat is a 2U CubeSat education mission by the Robertsville Middle School in Oak Ridge (Oak Ridge Public Schools), Tennessee, to develop and implement a middle school STEM curriculum for building a CubeSat.
The satellite will use a small camera to try to take pictures of forest regrowth in the Great Smoky Mountains near Gatlinburg. That area burned in forest fires fed by high winds after Thanksgiving 2016, killing 14 people and damaging or destroying more than 2,500 homes and businesses.
It was selected in 2018 by NASA's CubeSat Launch Initiative (CSLI) to be launched as part of the ELaNa program.
| Nation: | USA |
|---|---|
| Type / Application: | Education |
| Operator: | Oak Ridge Public Schools, Oak Ridge, Tennessee |
| Contractors: | Oak Ridge Public Schools, Oak Ridge, Tennessee |
| Equipment: | |
| Configuration: | CubeSat (2U) |
| Propulsion: | |
| Power: | Solar cells, batteries |
| Lifetime: | |
| Mass: | 2 kg |
| Orbit: | 414 km Ũ 421 km, 51.64° |
| Satellite | COSPAR | Date | LS | Launch Vehicle | Remarks | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RamSat | 1998-067SL | 03.06.2021 | CCK LC-39A | Falcon-9 v1.2 (Block 5) | with Dragon CRS-22, iROSA 2B, iROSA 4B, SOAR, MIR-Sat 1, G-Satellite 2 |
Launch Sites:
- CCK = NASA John F. Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA
References:
- Oak Ridge Public Schools: RamSat Homepage
- Oak Ridge Today: Selected for space launch, Robertsville satellite gets boost from ORNL, 10 March 2018
