Team with existing programs for students with learning disabilities, and for minority Hawaiian and Pacific Islander students. Use amateur astronomers around the world to enable public viewing during the impact and bring the excitement of astronomy to classrooms and to the public. Robust, three-axis stabilization ensures precision pointing for science and navigation. Solar powered, no deployments except precision release of impactor. X-band communication to ground, UHF relay of imaging data from impactor.
Whipple shields protect all components at closest approach and orbital plane passage.
Copper construction minimizes corruption of observed spectral emission lines. Impactor Targeting Sensor provides targeting data to guarantee a successful impact. Capitalizes on New Millennium DS-1 targeting software development to reduce risk.