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The satellite built by Brown University students is still on orbit after more than 2 years. Our calculations indicate that BSE's EQUiSat will "de-orbit" (burn up in the atmosphere) sometime around New Year's eve. (give or take a week depending on solar activity)

The small satellite built by BSE students continues to send messages home after 2 and 1/2 years and nearly 14 thousand orbits around the planet. Each green/yellow stripe is a packet of data describing the health of the spacecraft's systems.

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The satellite ground station on our rooftop just received a data packet from BSE EQUiSat this morning. It has be transmitting for 2 years 5 months. We estimate that it will reenter the atmosphere in two weeks.

A small satellite built by BSE students has been operating in orbit since July 2018. At 3:40 am local time two amateur radio operators received the last confirmed transmissions before it burned up reentering the atmosphere.

According to calculations from Brown University Ladd Observatory, EQUiSAT satellite built by Brown students disintegrated in earth's atmosphere today. Expected to stay in orbit for 6 months, it lasted nearly 2.5 years on its research mission since 7/13/18 deployment from International Space Station.

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Last week we held a lunar observing lab for the PHYS 220 intro to astronomy class. Students were able to remote control our camera to take this image. Image processing by Scott MacNeill. This week we'll be using our solar telescope to look for sunspot activity.

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Students in Brown Physics 220 intro to astronomy are remotely controlling the cameras on our telescopes to capture images of the Sun and Moon. Our astronomers Scott MacNeill and ~mikeu engage them in #remotelearning.

Photos from Ladd Observatory Open House. Ladd will reopen to the public soon!

NASA is seeking citizen scientists to submit observations during #Eclipse2024 - anyone can participate. science.nasa.gov/eclipses/futur…