SpaceX CRS-22 What's On Board Science Briefing

Students Joe Blair, at left, and Jonathon Bonamarte, describe a CubeSat, called RamSat, during a What’s On Board Science Briefing on June 2, 2021, at Kennedy Space Center in Florida for SpaceX’s 22nd Commercial Resupply Services Mission for NASA to the International Space Station. The small research satellite was developed by students and faculty at Robertsville Middle School in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. RamSat will observe forest regrowth in the Gatlinburg, Tennessee area which was devastated by wildfires in 2016. RamSat is the sole payload of the 36th Educational Launch of Nanosatellites (ELaNa) mission and was selected through NASA’s CubeSat Launch Initiative (CSLI). The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the Dragon capsule atop is scheduled to launch at 1:29 p.m. EDT on Thursday, June 3, from the center’s Launch Complex 39A. Dragon will deliver more than 7,300 pounds of cargo and science experiments to the space station.