"One of the payloads is NASA's DSAC (Deep Space Atomic Clock), a technology demonstration mission to validate a miniaturized, ultra-precise mercury-ion atomic clock that is 100 times more stable than today?s best navigation clocks."
"Measure electron cloud densities in Earth?s ionosphere, a layer high above Earth that affects long-range radio communications."
Air Force Research Lab grant.
"Employs a two-way communications transponder to relay remote telemetry, sensor and user data from remote environmental experiments (in the ground segment) or other data sources back to experimenters via a global network of Internet linked volunteer ground stations."
All electric. Less fuel load but longer transit time to orbital position.
