U.D.O.M Orbital mission 1

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This is the probe used for the the mission.

The U.D.O.M Orbital mission 1, was a space mission designed to take a CubeSat to orbit, and marked the first time the U.D.O.M launched a successful orbital rocket. The mission launched on September 24, 2017. It ended on January 3rd 2018

Launch date: 10/24/17 end date: 1/3/18 deorbit date (intentional): 1/3/18

The mission was built by the newly founded Rocket Propulsion Research Laboratory (RPRL). It was done by the only successful launch of a COMET 1 rocket. The mission was supposed to do the following:

  • take high res photos of earth (success, it took 4,501 pictures, 1 was during deorbit.)
  • take an atmosphere sample and return it to earth (failure; capsule failed to separate and was destroyed.)
  • survive at least 1 month (success)

It did science with 2 basic instruments:

  1. thermometer
  2. spectrometer

and a camera.