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ANDESITE
US University CubeSat (Deployable Magnetometer Swarm) · Boston University
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ANDESITE, a Boston University student satellite carrying eight tiny deployable 'ChipSats' — sensors smaller than a credit card, each measuring Earth's magnetic field independently to map disturbances too small and localized for any single larger satellite to detect.
Its orbit
- Orbit
- Low Earth Orbitcan appear as a fast-moving star at dawn or dusk
- Altitude
- 340–347 mi (546–558 km)
- Inclination
- 97.8°
- One orbit
- 95.5 minutes15.1 orbits a day
- NORAD ID
- 45726
- Int’l designator
- 2020-037D
- Launched
- 2020
Orbital elements from CelesTrak, as of 22 Sep 2026.
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