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NAIL: Art, Rosalee from Vancouver would like to ask you:

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How much distance would the satellites be between each other in orbit, and how was that decided?

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AZARBARZIN: OK. When we, when we launch these satellites, when they start at about very close to each other, about meters apart,

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but then they begin to spacing out as the orbit, they go through the orbit.

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However, over the course of the mission, we want to demonstrate a couple of things.

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We want to demonstrate and make sure the performance of our micro-thruster,

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which is a new technology for us, and also demonstration of the formation flying.

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As a result of that, we do place in the different regions of the magnetosphere,

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So, but in our mission, day 20 of mission, we do space them a little further apart --

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roughly about 40 to about 200 kilometers.

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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.

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