Spacetrack Directory Name | NACHOS-1 |
Alternative name | NACHOS |
Orbit launches | 2022-02-19 g.01:00 |
Deorbitation date | 2023-02-02 |
Days in orbit | 348 |
Country/organisation of origin | USA (US) |
Starting point | WLPIS (Wallops Island) |
WWW | Here |
Perigee | 399 km |
Apogee | 410 km |
Height NACHOS-1 | 369.22 km |
Technology demonstration of an ultra-compact, high-resolution, hyperspectral imager that is able to monitor fossil fuel burning and low-level passive degassing at volcanoes. If successful, it will be a paradigm shift in space-borne sensing?from expensive single-platform, large-satellite instruments, to agile constellations of relatively inexpensive instruments on small satellites.