SHERPA (space tug) | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-03-26

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00:01:03 1 Overview
00:02:29 2 Variants
00:04:33 3 Maiden flight
00:05:57 4 Second flight



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SUMMARY
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SHERPA is a commercial satellite-dispensing space tug (sometimes called a kick stage) designed to fly small secondary payloads to their desired location before deploying them. 
Riding atop the launcher's final stage, SHERPA's release follows deployment of the primary mission payload for the dispensing of minisatellites, microsatellites, or nanosatellites such as CubeSats. SHERPA builds upon the capabilities of the Spaceflight Secondary Payload System (SSPS) by incorporating propulsion and power generation subsystems, which creates a propulsive tug dedicated to maneuvering to an optimal orbit to place secondary and hosted payloads. 
SHERPA was developed by Andrews Space, a subsidiary of Spaceflight Industries, and was unveiled in 2012. The maiden flight was on 3 December 2018 on a Falcon 9 rocket, and it consisted of two separate unpropelled variants of the dispenser.