NEXTSat-2

Nuri's first operational flight, after two test flights that carried mass simulators and a vehicle-evaluation satellite, placed the 180 kg NEXTSat-2 and seven cubesats in sun-synchronous orbit.

NEXTSat-2, built at the Satellite Technology Research Center of the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), demonstrates X-band synthetic aperture radar imaging from a small satellite. Four of the cubesats make up SNIPE, a mission to study the plasma environment around Earth.