August 2016
Big or small - aerospace innovates through constraints
... Puig-Suari of California Polytechnic State University and Bob Twiggs of Stanford released their vision for the CubeSat reference design. It was a 10 centimetre cube that contained enough electrical components to be on par with Sputnik. The design...
October 2020
Open Source Space
... to implement systems throughout all segments of the space industry and adjacent sectors. The complementary mindsets of the CubeSat and Maker communities led to the first spaceflights of Android phones, Arduinos and RaspberryPis, and these early...
March 2015
Small is the new big: why micro-satellites require new laws
... limited capabilities, they represent a unique opportunity in term of learning curves to get quick access to space. Indeed, since CubeSat are all 10x10cm regardless of length, they can all be launched and deployed as secondary payloads using a common...
14 October 2019
First dedicated commercial smallsat mission to Mars unveiled
... journey to another planet when its twin communications-relay CubeSats – MarCO-A and MarCO-B – successfully relayed data ... main function was to broadcast radio signals. The consortium’s CubeSats are likely to perform more complex tasks such as taking ...
September 2023
Satellite manufacturing - building to size, speed and security
... a successful rendezvous and proximity operations (RPO) mission around each other. LINUSS proved that small systems of CubeSats can upgrade satellite constellations and extend the design lifecycle of spacecraft in orbit. Terran Orbital has continued...
16 September 2019
First European satellite with AI set for launch
... will demonstrate for the first time worldwide a reliable optical intersatellite link (O-ISL) between the two CubeSats flying in Low Earth Orbit (LEO). They are also the precursor mission to will what eventually become...
