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MAKERSAT 0
US University CubeSat (3D-Printed Structure Test) · Northwest Nazarene University (USA)
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MakerSat-0, a US university CubeSat testing 3D-printed satellite structural components manufactured with off-the-shelf desktop printers — a genuinely unusual experiment in whether cheap, widely accessible manufacturing technology could build spaceflight-rated hardware.
Its orbit
- Orbit
- Low Earth Orbitcan appear as a fast-moving star at dawn or dusk
- Altitude
- 247–329 mi (397–529 km)
- Inclination
- 97.4°
- One orbit
- 93.7 minutes15.4 orbits a day
- NORAD ID
- 43016
- Int’l designator
- 2017-073D
- Launched
- 2017
Orbital elements from CelesTrak, as of 22 Sep 2026.
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