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MISSE 5 has a telemeter and the performance of the test specimens will be transmitted to Earth during the mission. When the MISSE 5 telemeter is not transmitting data, it will be used by amateur radio operators as a relay station.
Image to right: An astronaut finishes attaching a MISSE Passive Experiment Container to the exterior of the International Space Station (ISS). Shuttle Discovery’s STS-114 mission transported MISSE 5 to the ISS and retrieved MISSEs 1 and 2, which spent more than three years on the exterior of the ISS.
The MISSE project will also provide educational opportunities for students. MISSEs 3 and 4 will fly approximately 8 million basil seeds that will be given to children for science experiments to stimulate interest in space science.
Participants in MISSE
The MISSE Project is funded jointly by NASA and the DOD. NASA’s Langley Research Center manages the MISSE project. Other partners include NASA’s Glenn Research Center, Cleveland; Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.; Johnson Space Center, Houston; the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.; and Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala.
DOD partners are the Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, Calif.; Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Arlington, Va.; and the Air Force Research Lab, Dayton, Ohio.
Industry partners include The Boeing Company, Chicago; Hughes Aircraft Company, Torrance, Calif.; Lockheed Martin, Bethesda, Md.; Loral, Seabrook, Md.; Rockwell International, Richardson, Texas; and TRW, Redondo Beach, Calif.
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