16 October 2015
Hitchhikers no more: NASA picks 3 firms to launch cubesats
..., allowing them also to have more say into the orbit of the spacecraft when the cubesats are released. “The cubesat and small satellite engineers and scientists are coming up with missions that justify flying unique...
August 2016
Smallsat launch strategy
...satellites, each weighing approximately 5 kg and based on the 3U Cubesat form factor. We launch and operate a fleet of these satellites... one option that does not come without risk Cubesats are particularly suited as secondary payloads because they can...
09 October 2015
First Cubesat from American Tribal College Sent into Space
... Advanced Concepts Experiment programme (GRACE), it travelled along with a spy satellite primary payload and 12 other cubesats. The cubesat is designed mainly for educational purposes, said Tim Olson, project leader and department head of Information...
24 July 2019
LightSail 2 unfurls its sails and soars through space
...) into space just under a month ago. Telemetry from the CubeSat indicated that at approximately 11:45 p.m PDT (18:45 GMT) on 23...that sails of this nature are a viable means of propulsion for CubeSats - an idea that is documented as far back as the ...
September 2017
Australia’s ambitious home-grown space industry
...successful launch in April 2017 of the UNSW-ECO, SUSat and INSPIRE-2 CubeSats, as part of the QB50 project, again demonstrated the country’s efforts ...and WRESAT in 1967. These three new research CubeSats demonstrate that in the new ‘space age’ ...
January 2020
Discipline - a formula for success in the Earth observation market EO sector
... must then deal with the data itself. According to some conservative estimates, the potential EO data gathered by CubeSats alone will be more than 10 times that collected by traditional government satellites. Moreover, these volumes of data add...
