NAIL: Art, Rosalee from Vancouver would like to ask you:
How much distance would the satellites be between each other in orbit, and how was that decided?
AZARBARZIN: OK. When we, when we launch these satellites, when they start at about very close to each other, about meters apart,
but then they begin to spacing out as the orbit, they go through the orbit.
However, over the course of the mission, we want to demonstrate a couple of things.
We want to demonstrate and make sure the performance of our micro-thruster,
which is a new technology for us, and also demonstration of the formation flying.
As a result of that, we do place in the different regions of the magnetosphere,
So, but in our mission, day 20 of mission, we do space them a little further apart --
roughly about 40 to about 200 kilometers.
And when we go through day 50 of the mission, we bring them a little bit closer to each other, which is roughly around 20 to 150 kilometers.