Project POPACS (Polar Orbiting Passive Atmospheric Calibration Spheres), with Gil Moore as Project Director, is a multi-university collaboration focused on studying the Earth's upper atmosphere. The project deployed three small aluminum spheres from a CubeSat into polar orbit to measure changes in atmospheric density in the auroral zone in response to solar activity. By tracking these spheres, scientists and amateur observers can calculate atmospheric density and improve atmospheric models.
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