CFESat, the Cibola Flight Experiment Satellite, examines radio spectra for ionospheric and lightning studies, using field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). FPGAs should not be confused with the Flip-chip pin grid array, a form of integrated circuit packaging As well as science observation, the mission aims to show use of reconfigurable FPGAs to work in the radiation environment of low Earth orbit. A Low Earth Orbit (LEO is generally defined as an Orbit within the locus extending from the Earth’s surface up to an altitude of 2000 km
The satellite payloads were built by Los Alamos National Laboratory, and the bus was built by Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL (previously known at various times as Site Y, Los Alamos Laboratory, and Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory) is a Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd, or SSTL is a spin-off company of the University of Surrey that builds and operates small satellites.
CFESat was launched from Cape Canaveral on 8 March 2007, alongside Orbital Express, MidSTAR-1 and FalconSAT-3. Cape Canaveral from the Spanish Cabo Cañaveral, is a headland in Brevard County Florida, United States, near the center of that MidSTAR-1 is an artificial Satellite produced by the United States Naval Academy Small Satellite Program (SSP FalconSAT is the name of the United States Air Force Academy 's small Satellite engineering program
External links
- NNSA satellite launched on Atlas-5 rocket, Los Alamos National Laboratory news story, 09 March 2007.
- Supercomputing satellite hits the road, Los Alamos National Laboratory news story, 31 August 2006.
- eoPortal summary of CFESat
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