Georgia Tech has put another small satellite into low-Earth orbit. OrCa2b will enhance space domain awareness and improve the tracking of resident space objects (RSOs), such as debris and other satellites.
The satellite is the first of two CubeSats that will make up the Orbital Calibration 2 Mission (OrCa2a and OrCa2b), which will allow researchers to better track objects in Earth’s orbit from both the ground and from orbit. OrCa2b launched in March and OrCa2a is scheduled to lift off later this fall.
Researchers from Georgia Tech’s Space Systems Design Lab (SSDL) have been working on the 12U (20cm x 20cm x 30 cm) CubeSats since 2021 and inherited many of the same key design elements as its predecessor OrCa1, which launched in 2020.
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