Ben Brockert on Nostr: In the few days since it was deployed it has increased its eccentricity, reducing ...

In the few days since it was deployed it has increased its eccentricity, reducing perigee by 5km and increasing apogee by 4. I don’t know what their flight plan is but it would be nice to see the opposite, and bring the perigee up as much as possible.

It’s a bit surprising that they decided to launch a solar sail into LEO during solar maximum.

I can’t actually find any explanation of their objective other than deployment, I should probably just email the people at Ames.