Multinational company Boeing brings SENSE NanoSats to Air Force

Boeing, an American aerospace and defense corporation, has given two Space Environmental NanoSat Experiment (SENSE) satellites to the U.S Air Force

These nanosats are 30 x 10 x 10 centimeters in size, and weigh less than nine pounds each. They are scheduled to be sent into orbit in the summer of 2013 on the ORS-3 mission, built to collect and transmit weather data. Each of the nanosat contains a GPS receiver and sensor so that it can gather vdata to help support assessments and weather prediction. These nanosats also have a miniature S-band transceiver to downlink mission and spacecraft data at one megabit per second.

Boeing Phantom Works Advanced Space & Intelligence Systems Director Bruce Chesley said in a statement, "The SENSE nanosats offer customers an affordable, operationally robust option to conduct military missions using spacecraft no larger than a standard loaf of bread.”