Extended Life Flight Results from the GeneSat-1 Biological Microsatellite Mission

GIOVANNI MINELLI; CHRISTOPHER KITTS; KAROLYN RONZANO; CHRISTOPHER BEASLEY; RICHARD RASAY; IGNACIO MAS; PHELPS WILLIAMS; PAUL MAHACEK; JOHN SHEPARD; JOSE ACAIN; JOHN HINES; ELWOOD AGASID; CHARLIE FRIEDERICKS; MATTHEW PICCINI; MACARENA PARRA; LINDA TIMUCIN; MIKE HENSCHKE; ED LUZZI; DAVID SQUIRES; CHRIS STORMENT; JOHN TUCKER; BRUCE YOST; GREG DEFOUW; ANTONIO RICCO

Logan, Utah

Congreso; AIAA/USU Conference on Small Satellites; 2008

AIAA/USU

The Genesat-1 technology demonstration mission validated the use of research quality instrumentation for in situ biological research and processing. After its launch from Wallops Flight Facility as a secondary payload off a Minotaur launch vehicle on December 16, 2006, all primary science and engineering test objectives were completed successfully within one month of operation. Since that time, additional trend analyses and experiments have been performed to further quantify the performance of the bus; such quantification is of particular interest for at least five heritage-based missions currently in development, three of which are set to launch in 2008 and two slated for 2009. This paper revisits the GeneSat-1 mission system and presents results from the extended mission.