Studying the Van Allen radiation belts (illustrated here) is the scientific goal of a recently awarded GTOSat, which will use a more capable 6U CubeSat bus, the Dellingr-X. (Credit: NASA)
By Lori Keesey
NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center
GREENBELT, Md. — A new CubeSat mission — GTOSat — will not only provide key observations of the environmentally forbidding radiation belts that encircle Earth, it will provide initial steps of a new technological vision.