Orbiting Picosat Automatic Launcher
U.S. amateur radio satellite
Orbiting Picosat Automatic Launcher (also known as OPAL-OSCAR 38 , SQUIRT 2 and OO-38 ) is an American technology testing and amateur radio satellite that was developed by students at the Space Systems Development Laboratory at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California . The aim was to test the feasibility of launching several picosatellites from one parent satellite. The satellite's secondary payloads are an accelerometer testbed and a magnetometer testbed, which will perform component characterization. The main satellite ejected 6 nanosatellites in orbit (MEMS 1A , MEMS 1B , STENSAT , MASAT (JAK) , Artemis-Thelma and Artemis-Louise ). The development started in 1995 and was completed in May 1999.[ 1]
OPAL was launched on January 27, 2000 together with JAWSAT with a Minotaur I rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base , California .[ 2]
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January February March April May June July August September October November December Launches are separated by dots ( • ), payloads by commas ( , ), multiple names for the same satellite by slashes ( / ).Crewed flights are underlined. Launch failures are marked with the † sign. Payloads deployed from other spacecraft are (enclosed in parentheses).
