February 2018
Growth drivers, requirements and threats in the smallsat industry
... these advances and the game-changing cost reductions, cubesats are now available for under US$35,000, which even...of a standardised construction method for form and mass had led to cubesats with the initial standard of 1U (unit). By stacking them, ...
April 2018
Transforming the launch market for small spacecraft
... result in huge profits. The main source of the increased number of small satellites in Europe is universities building Cubesats. These satellites are typically built with the provision of free-of-charge piggyback launches, because university project...
15 September 2015
From CubeSats to drones – playing catch-up with technology in air and space
... goes. The drones problem mirrors the issue of CubeSats, nanosats, and other revolutionary satellites – as the...in regulating drone technology in particular. The issue of drones/CubeSats is a perfect illustration to how innovation on the ground mirrors...
10 February 2016
Spaceflight Awarded First GSA Schedule Contract for Satellite Launch Services
... a process once thought to be innovative at the time, ordering a CubeSat or MicroSat launch can now be done in much the same way ...the planet, with capabilities to launch everything from a CubeSat to a 2000 kilogram micro-satellite, nonetheless, the ...
26 November 2018
Success for InSight as it performs a flawless landing on Mars
... was to relay InSight’s progress as it descended to the martian surface; MarCO-A and B, or MarCO for short. The experimental CubeSats, which were built by early career scientists from off-the-shelf parts, locked signals on to the spacecraft...
10 August 2021
NASA-funded commercial Moon mission to launch from New Zealand
... on an Electron rocket and deploying from Rocket Lab’s Photon spacecraft platform, CAPSTONE is a 25 kilogram (55-pound satellite) CubeSat that will serve as the first spacecraft to test a unique, elliptical lunar orbit. As a precursor for Gateway and...
