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Stensat Structural

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Components

 

bullet Aluminum chassis (four inches by three inches by one inch) with antenna racetrack
bullet Magnet
bullet Top and bottom printed circuit board solar cell panels
bullet Two internal printed circuit boards (receiver / transmitter and controller)
bullet Black and white paint

One NdFeB disk magnet provides alignment and attitude control.  Painting different sides of one of the dipole antennas with black and white paint will introduce a slow radiometric spin.

 

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