page_title: KickSat
hierarchical_section_title: KickSat
caption_attribution_description: English: Prototype of a KickSat Sprite - a ChipSat proof of concept design for the KickSat project
context_page_description: KickSat was a small-satellite project inaugurated in early October 2011, to launch many very small satellites from a 3U CubeSat. The satellites have been characterized as being the size of a large postage stamp.
  and also as "cracker size".
  The mission launch was originally scheduled for late 2013 and was launched April 18, 2014.
  Kicksat reached its orbit and transmitted beacon signals that were received by radio amateurs. Telemetry data allowed the prediction of the orbit and the reentry on May 15, 2014 at about 01:30 UTC. Due to a non-redundant design, a timer reset while on-orbit and the femtosatellites were not deployed in time, and burned up inside the KickSat mothership when the undeployed satellite-deployment mechanism reentered Earth's atmosphere. It is one of several crowdfunded satellites launched during the 2010s.
context_section_description: KickSat was a small-satellite (femtosatellite) project inaugurated in early October 2011, to launch many very small satellites from a 3U CubeSat. The satellites have been characterized as being the size of a large postage stamp.
  and also as "cracker size".
  The mission launch was originally scheduled for late 2013 and was launched April 18, 2014.
  Kicksat reached its orbit and transmitted beacon signals that were received by radio amateurs. Telemetry data allowed the prediction of the orbit and the reentry on May 15, 2014 at about 01:30 UTC. Due to a non-redundant design, a timer reset while on-orbit and the femtosatellites were not deployed in time, and burned up inside the KickSat mothership when the undeployed satellite-deployment mechanism reentered Earth's atmosphere. It is one of several crowdfunded satellites launched during the 2010s.
caption: KickSat Sprite prototype
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