Baden-Württemberg 1 (BW1) was a proposed

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. The mission was led by the

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. The basic design was for a cubical spacecraft 1 meter on a side, with a mass of about 200 kg (441 lb). It may use an pulsed plasma thruster utilizing

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(PTFE) as propellant. work on trajectories had been performed. Baden-Württemberg 1 was part of the Stuttgart Small Satellite Program initiated in 2002 that included FLYING LAPTOP, PERSEUS, CERMIT, and the aforementioned BW-1.

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