The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory’s (AFRL’s) newest sensor experiment deployed from the International Space Station on December 29, 2022, hosted on NASA’s six-unit cube satellite named petitSat, or Plasma Enhancements in the Ionosphere-Thermosphere Satellite. The CubeSat’s mission is to study a layer in Earth’s upper atmosphere known as the ionosphere to provide insight into space weather disturbances and their impact on navigation and communication systems.
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February 7, 2023 | Originally published by KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE, N.M. on February 1, 2023