The Star-Planet Activity Research CubeSat (SPARCS) is a small space telescope about the size little box.🛰️
It is built of six cubical units, each about four inches on a side. These are joined to make a spacecraft two units wide by three long in what is termed a 6U spacecraft; solar power panels extend like wings from one end.
The mission which SPARCS will undertake is monitoring the flares and sunspot activity of M-type stars, also called red dwarfs, in the far- and near-ultraviolet.☀️
The stellar modeling is being led by Travis Barman of the Lunar and Planetary Lab at the University of Arizona and the planet modeling by Victoria Meadows of the Virtual Planet Laboratory at the University of Washington.
It is built of six cubical units, each about four inches on a side. These are joined to make a spacecraft two units wide by three long in what is termed a 6U spacecraft; solar power panels extend like wings from one end.
The mission which SPARCS will undertake is monitoring the flares and sunspot activity of M-type stars, also called red dwarfs, in the far- and near-ultraviolet.☀️
The stellar modeling is being led by Travis Barman of the Lunar and Planetary Lab at the University of Arizona and the planet modeling by Victoria Meadows of the Virtual Planet Laboratory at the University of Washington.
