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CubeSats Provide Small Payloads a Gateway to Space

The ELaNa X payload comprises three Poly Picosatellite Orbital Deployers, or P-PODs, containing a total of four CubeSats. These four small satellites represent three separate missions:

  • ExoCube, a space weather satellite consisting of three CubeSat units
  • The GEO-CAPE ROIC In-Flight Performance Experiment, or GRIFEX, a technology validation mission also consisting of three CubeSat units
  • FIREBIRD-II (A and B), a two-Cubesat space weather project that will study electron microbursts in the Van Allen radiation belts

Check out the ELaNa X fact sheet for specifics on each of these missions. To learn more about the ELaNa project, visit the website.