CIRBE launched and Comms Established

After years of hard work and anxious searching/waiting for the launch opportunities, CIRBE (Colorado Inner Radiation Belt Experiment) was successfully launched at 12:48 AM (MT) on April 15 and deployed at T+01:06:20 to a sun synchronous orbit with local time ascending node at 10:30AM (~97.4 deg inclination and ~500 km). Communications with CIRBE have been established and the s/c is in a healthy state.

It is amazing that we could see CIRBE being deployed in real time.

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