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2020
CSIM Measured SSI

CSIM Version 1 Data Release

March 20, 2020

Data from the initial operations of the CSIM technology demonstration mission has just been released, it is available here. These solar spectral irradiance (SSI) observations occurred from March 27, 2019 – November 12, 2019. Over this time approximately 240 photodiode and 20 ESR spectra were taken. The CSIM instrument measures the daily top-of-the-atmosphere SSI from […]

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CSIM Resumes Science Observations

March 20, 2020

CSIM science observations were halted from November 2019 until March 2020 to allow us to debug a on-board data storage issue. This issue has been resolved and science observations were resumed on March 12, 2020.

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2018
Launch of SSO-A

CSIM Update December 9th

December 9, 2018

The SpaceFlight SSO-A mission lifted on 10:34 am local time on Monday, December 3rd. The UHF beacon was observed during the first pass over LASP, and beacon data was received and decoded on the second pass. As of Sunday, December 9th we have received a total of over 2000 packets combined from the LASP ground […]

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CSIM Launch Information

November 2, 2018

CSIM is set to launch later this year aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 on the SpaceFlight SSO-A mission.

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