The payloads for STPSat-3 will include: the Integrated Miniaturized Electrostatic Analyzer Reflight (iMESA-R); the Joint Component Research (J-CORE); the Strip Sensor Unit (SSU); the Small Wind and Temperature Spectrometer SWATS; and NASA and NOAA’s TSI Calibration Transfer Experiment (TCTE)

   Ball Aerospace said the STPSat-3 spacecraft would able to support a variety of experimental and risk reduction payloads at different low-Earth orbits and is compatible with multiple launch vehicles.

   “The STPSat-3satellite demonstrated its outstanding agility by accommodating additional payloads after the spacecraft was completed,” Ball Aerospace President and CEO David Taylor said in a statement. “Built in only 47 days, the versatility of this common spacecraft will be evidenced once again when five payloads are flown aboard STPSat-3 – two more than carried by SPTSat-2 when it launched in 2010.”