KickSat cubesat mission was to deploy over 100 Sprite spacecrafts (or ChipSats), with the size of a postage stamp. The space flight at its simplest! But a radiation induced reset of the timer postponed the deployment to a time after the reentry date of Kicksat-1 so the Sprites were not deployed in time, and burned up inside the mothership. One of the first crowdfunded space projects, lead by Zac Manchester and continues under the NASA's CubeSat Launch Initiative. The KickSat Sprite was proposed in 2016 as an early-stage prototype of the StarChip, the interstellar probe for the Breakthrough Starshot project. Mission 2 in March 2019 success was a historic milestone in the miniaturization of satellite technology. “This is like the PC revolution for space. KickSat has kick-started the democratic space age.”

Launch date: April 18, 2014
Satellite Catalog No: NORAD ID 39685
Int'l Designator: COSPAR 2014-022F
Aplication: Amateur Radio
Configuration: 3U
Tags: Space Nanosatellite CubeSat Sprites ChipSat HamRadio