Space Technology 5
Space Technology 5 was a NASA New Millennium Program mission composed of three autonomous microsatellites flown as a coordinated constellation. It flight-qualified miniaturized spacecraft technologies, demonstrated formation operations with small satellites, and showed that compact platforms could return research-quality measurements of Earth's magnetic environment.
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- Space Technology 5
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- Space Technology 5 was a NASA New Millennium Program mission composed of three autonomous microsatellites flown as a coordinated constellation. It flight-qualified miniaturized spacecraft technologies, demonstrated formation operations with small satellites, and showed that compact platforms could return research-quality measurements of Earth's magnetic environment.
- Destination
- Earth orbit in a three-satellite constellation for magnetosphere and magnetic-field technology demonstrations
- End Date
- 2006-06-30
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- Outcome
- All three ST5 spacecraft completed the planned 90-day validation mission. They formed a string-of-pearls constellation, performed coordinated magnetic-field measurements, and demonstrated miniature propulsion, communications, thermal-control, electronics, sensing, deployment, and autonomous-operations technologies that informed later multi-spacecraft missions.
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- 2006-03-22
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- July 18, 2026 at 16:08:29 UTC
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- August 22, 2026 at 02:49:34 UTC
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