September 2019
A new era in planetary defence missions
... of Didymos B - the first radar probe of an asteroid ever performed. Meanwhile, the Swedish/Finnish/Czech/German APEX CubeSat will gather detailed spectral and lidar surveys of the surface of Didymos B, including the identification of ejecta material...
July 2014
Beware the situation: how JSpOC tracks space debris
... that time, this represented the largest amount on board any single booster, consisting of a primary spacecraft and 27 CubeSats. In addition to tracking challenges and increased orbital safety risks, it also presented policy and analytical challenges...
September 2016
Small launcher market survey
... K. Smith and P. Hollingsworth, “Launch Deployment of Distributed Small Satellite Systems,” University of Manchester, UK, 4 November 2014, p.1. 12“Cubesats explained and why you need to build one,” DIY Space Exploration (web article), URL: http://www...
January 2017
New oceans beckon for solar sail technology
... own demonstrator, LightSail-A. This was a 3U CubeSat mission that deployed a 32 square metre sail...20 cm on a side. The University of Surrey has also developed a 3U CubeSat sail, called InflateSail, which was scheduled to fly in late 2016 or early ...
November 2019
Mexico’s path to space
.... As a first step in this direction, AEM, with the support of NASA, coordinated the design and construction of AztechSat-1, a 1U CubeSat created by a team of students and academics from the Universidad Popular Autónoma del Estado de Puebla (UPAEP...
February 2020
Aeroshells – from LEO to Mars
... launch of EGG will be followed in 2021 by BEAK (Breakthrough by EGG-derived Aerocapture Kilt vehicle) which, like EGG, is a 3U CubeSat weighing around 4 kg and launched from the ISS into a 400 km altitude, 51.6 degree inclined orbit. Design changes...
