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The Illinois Observing Nanosatellite (ION) is the first CubeSat mission developed by the students of University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The satellite was lost in the failure of the Dnepr-1 launch on 26 July 2006. Completed in April 2005 as a part of the Illinois Tiny Satellite Initiative,〔() ITSI Initiative (CubeSat @ UofI), retrieved 11 January 2014.〕 the satellite took almost four years to be designed, built and tested by an interdisciplinary team of student engineers.〔() IlliniSat-2, retrieved 11 January 2014.〕 The payloads included a photometer, a micro-thruster and a camera. == Mission objectives == The science and technology objectives of the ION-1 mission were aimed at advancing key enabling technologies for CubeSats:〔() ION Information Sheet, retrieved 11 January 2014.〕 #Measurement of oxygen intensity in Earth's ionosphere to understand how energy transfers occur across large regions #Test the MicroVacuum Arc Thruster (µVAT), a versatile small satellite propulsion technology for lateral movement and fine-control of attitude #Test the SID processor board designed specifically for small satellites in low Earth orbit (LEO) #Test a small CMOS camera for Earth imaging #Demonstrate attitude stabilization on a CubeSat 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「ION (satellite)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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