On Orbit Mission Control

The On-Orbit Mission Control will be conducted by the Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd ground site in Guildford, UK. The United States Air Force Academy at Colorado Springs, Colorado will operate a backup ground station for PicoSAT satellite to increase the amount of experimental data.

On-Orbit Mission Control consists of four packages on PicoSat 9:^[1]

• Polymer Battery Experiment, a plastic battery technology demonstration funded by Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory^[2]
• Ionospheric Occultation Experiment,^[3] a horizontal electron density mapping of the ionosphere funded by the United States Air Force and The Aerospace Corporation^[2]
• Coherent Electromagnetic Radio Tomography, a vertical electron density mapping of the ionosphere funded by the Naval Research Laboratory^[2]
• Optical Precision Platform Experiment, an anti-vibration platform demonstration funded by the Air Force Research Laboratory^[2]