They are also completing the construction and assembly of a pressure vessel and valve that will work with the micro-jet thrusters to spin Starshine 2 at the start of its orbital mission in October of 2001. Schools in the vicinity of the Naval Research Laboratory in southeast Washington, DC can make arrangements to visit the laboratory and watch their mirrors being vibration tested on the Starshine 2 satellite. Administrator Dan Goldin might feel better about NASA's continuing to launch our satellites at no cost, if you Starshine educators could tell him how your students are benefiting from this program. This is a large file. This is a large file.
Sunlight is reflected from a single mirror in the image on the right.
Photo by Kerry Kirkland. Starshine 3 Structural Shell. Photo by Steve Wasserzug.