Earth Observation Satellites
FASTSAT-1
[Source: Mark Boudreaux, Edward Montgomery, Joseph Casas "A Fast, Affordable, Science and Technology SATellite (FASTSAT) and the Small Satellite Market Development Environment", NASA, Huntsville, Alabama USA ] The National Aeronautics and Space Administration at Marshall Space Flight Center and the National Space Science and Technology Center in Huntsville Alabama USA, are jointly developing a new class of science and technology mission small satellites. The Fast, Affordable, Science and Technology SATellite (FASTSAT) was designed and developed using a new collaborative and best practices approach. The FASTSAT development, along with the new class of low cost vehicles currently being developed, would allow performance of ~ 30 kg payload mass missions for a cost of less than 10 million US dollars. Group: Platform_Details Entry_ID: FASTSAT-1 Group: Platform_Identification Platform_Category: Earth Observation Satellites Short_Name: FASTSAT-1 Long_Name: Fast, Affordable, Science and Technology SATellite, 1 End_Group Creation_Date: 2009-10-23 Online_Resource: http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&ct=res&cd=1&ved=0CAoQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fntrs.nasa.gov%2Farchive%2Fnasa%2Fcasi.ntrs.nasa.gov%2F20080036190_2008036047.pdf&ei=BgfiSsn_I5OuMPnW0bYB&usg=AFQjCNHZ6N43VBkE4WvahXScylTbIEH_jw&sig2=Q7Ps8w9mdQtbZT7JWHLgbw Online_Resource: http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2007/19nov_fastsat.htm Online_Resource: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/smallsats/fastsat/ Group: Platform_Logistics Primary_Sponsor: USA/NASA End_Group End_Group