What is "fastsat"

Fast, Affordable, Science and Technology Satellite or FASTSAT, also known as USA 220 is a NASA satellite that was launched from the Kodiak Launch Complex in Kodiak, Alaska, United States, on November 20, 2010 on a Minotaur IV rocket. The mission's objective is to demonstrate the capability to build, design and test a microsatellite platform to enable researchers to conduct low-cost scientific and technology experiments on an autonomous satellite in space.

The satellite is intended to demonstrate technology for a new lower-cost microsatellite bus and, capable of carrying science, research and technology payloads. It carried experiments ranked #28, #55, #57, and #59 by the Space Experiments Review Board (SERB), which selects and prioritises experiments for US military research satellites. the Threat Detection System (TDS); Thermospheric Temperature Imager (TTI), Plasma Impedance Spectrum Analyzer (PISA), Miniature Imager for Neutral Ionospheric atoms and Magnetosphereic electrons (MINI-ME), a Miniature Star Tracker (MST), and NanoSail-D2.