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O/OREOS Nanosatellite

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O/OREOS; O/OREOS satellite

Definition

The O/OREOS (Organism/Organic Exposure to Orbital Stresses) nanosatellite is a 5.5-kg, 10 × 10 × 34 cm free-flying autonomous spacecraft that comprises a control, power, and communications “bus” that supports two separate “1U” (10-cm cube) experimental astrobiology payloads. The 3U O/OREOS spacecraft launched as a secondary payload in November 2010 to a 650-km circular orbit and successfully completed its primary mission 6 months later; it continued to function in mid 2015. Data were telemetered to Earth throughout the mission from both its Space Environment Viability of Organics (SEVO) and Space Environment Survivability of Living Organisms (SESLO) payloads.

History

Development of the O/OREOS nanosatellite was initiated in August 2008 at the NASA Ames Research Center under the auspices of the NASA Astrobiology Small Payloads program as a demonstration mission. O/OREOS was successfully launched as a secondary payload on the US Air Force’s...

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  • Bramall N, Quinn R, Mattioda A, Bryson K, Chittenden J, Cook A, Ehrenfreund P, Ricco AJ, Squires D, Santos O, Minelli G, Defouw G, Friedericks C, Landis D, Jones NC, Hoffmann SV (2011) The Development of the Space Environment Viability of Organics (SEVO) experiment aboard the Organism/Organics Exposure to Orbital Stresses (O/OREOS) satellite. Planet Space Sci 60:121–130

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  • Cook AM, Mattioda AL, Quinn R, Ricco AJ, Ehrenfreund P, Bramall NE, Minelli G, Quigley E, Walker R (2014b) SEVO on the ground: design of a laboratory solar simulation in support of the O/OREOS mission. Astrophys J Suppl Ser, 210:15 (8 pp).

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. NASA Ames Research Center, on Assignment from Stanford University, Moffett Field, CA, USA

    Antonio J. Ricco

  2. Space Policy Institute, George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA

    Pascale Ehrenfreund

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Centro de Biología Molecular, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

    Ricardo Amils

  2. Labo. d'Astrophysique de Bordeaux (LAB), Observatoire Aquitain des Sciences de l'Univers (OASU), Floirac CX, France

    Muriel Gargaud

  3. Centro de Astrobiología (CAB), Inst. Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial, Torrejón de Ardoz, Madrid, Spain

    José Cernicharo Quintanilla

  4. Geophysical Lab., Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington, District of Columbia, USA

    Henderson James Cleaves

  5. Astronomy Department, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA

    William M. Irvine

  6. Dépt. Sc. de la Terre et de l’Atmosphère, Université du Québec, Montréal, Montreal, Québec, Canada

    Daniele Pinti

  7. Centre National d'Etudes Spatiale (CNES) DPI/E2U, Paris CX, France

    Michel Viso

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Ricco, A.J., Ehrenfreund, P. (2014). O/OREOS Nanosatellite. In: Amils, R., et al. Encyclopedia of Astrobiology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27833-4_5100-1

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