KickSat
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Within Vinony's link graph, KickSat is referenced by 109 other articles, and connects out to Popular Science, artificial satellite and International Space Station.
It is catalogued under topics including CubeSats, Kickstarter-funded spacecraft and Secondary payloads.
Its subject is documented across 5 Wikipedia language editions.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- artificial satellite
- Image
- KickSat Auto7.jpeg
- Significant event
- rocket launch
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- space launch vehicle
- Falcon 9
- UTC date of spacecraft launch
- 2014-04-18
- Commons category
- KickSat
- start point
- Cape Canaveral Space Launch Complex 40
- funding scheme
- crowdfunding
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Encyclopedic overview
7 sectionsContents
- History
- Design
- Inaugural mission
- Other missions
- References
- Further reading
- External links
thumb|Zac Manchester and KickSat thumb|KickSat Sprite prototype
KickSat was a satellite dispenser for small-satellite (femtosatellite) project inaugurated in early October 2011, to launch many very small satellites from a 3U CubeSat. The satellites have been characterized as being the size of a large postage stamp. and also as "cracker size". The mission launch was originally scheduled for late 2013 and was launched April 18, 2014.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “KickSat” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.