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NAIL: Dr. Stevens, Sarah from Melbourne: How long will it take for the results of this mission to become available,

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and what do you anticipate that you might find out?

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STEVENS: That's a very good question. Since ST5 is made up of a series of advanced technologies all integrated together to provide a new capability,

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we use those advanced technologies to actually conduct the mission.

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So, as a consequence, once we launch, for example, and we turn on our X-band transponder,

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our radio that we use to communicate back and forth between the spacecraft and the ground,

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we'll begin to understand how this advanced-technology radio is working in comparison to the way we tested it on the ground.

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And likewise, with the other technologies, we'll have similar information right away as we start into the mission.

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Now, as far as the constellation operations activities are concerned, as we go through the early phases of the mission,

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we'll begin to get data from our magnetometers on the spacecraft and begin to understand

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how they are operating as a science constellation, as a single entity.

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And that information will be built up over time, and of course,

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once we get to the end of the mission, we'll have a full picture of the utility of constellations. The, the final output from this,

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from this mission will be a validation report, where all of the technology results will be described and published,

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and that will be the way that we provide the information to the community at large.

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