STP-H6

Launch data: Designation   19025 Launch date - time  04 May 2019 Launch site  CC, SLC-40 Launch vehicle  Falcon-9 v1.2 Mission  Technology Deployment date   Earth orbit: Perigee / Apogee   km Inclination   ° Period   min

Spacecraft data:

Description:

• The STP-H6 (Space Test Program - Houston 6) is a combo of experiments to be hosted on the International Space Station (ISS).
• STP-H6 will carry eight SERB experiments, including experiments related to star tracker and communications technology and space environment monitoring.
• STP-H6 includes following experiments:
  • XCOM is an x-ray communication investigation that will be used to perform a space-based demonstration of a new technology for generating beams of modulated x-rays, to be received by NICER, also mounted on the ISS. This technology may be useful for providing efficient communication to deep space probes, or communicating with hypersonic vehicles where plasma sheaths prevent traditional radio communications.
  • iMESA electrostatic analyser for ionospheric studies, USAF Academy
  • SSIVP supercomputing for image and video processing, with dual Earth imaging cameras, from the University of Pittsburgh
  • Plasma impedance probe, NRL
  • ACES-RED-1, an US Army SMDC package with student-built experiments for future Army cubesat technology including a GoPro and a Raspberry Pi
• The STP-H6 package was launched as an external payload in the Dragon CRS-17 trunk. STP-H6 will be installed on an ELC.