24 January 2022
Solar sail mission will intercept and study small asteroid
... NASA’s Planetary Defense Coordination Office. NEA Scout is a science and technology demonstration mission based on a six-unit CubeSat and it will be one of 10 secondary payloads aboard NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, currently scheduled for...
17 January 2020
TriSept secures dedicated rideshare mission aboard Orbex Prime
...we expect will carry a complement of eight to twenty cubesats and microsatellites into orbit in 2022.” “This exciting mission... providing launch integration and management support of NASA’s CubeSat missions through 2025, TriSept is working with all ...
18 January 2021
Virgin Orbit rocket reaches orbit for first time
...-stage rocket ignited and powered itself to orbit. At the conclusion of the flight, the LauncherOne rocket deployed 10 CubeSats into the team’s precise target orbit, marking a major step forward for Virgin Orbit in its quest...
March 2015
Sky links: from multi-satellite systems to nano-launchers
... of SSC standardisation at the hardware level is the CubeSat form-factor, introduced in 2001, which encouraged the ... into orbit possible. Examples of attempts at such unification are CubeSat containers, the Space Sherpa platform, etc. A Neptune rocket...
March 2015
A boom and a (possible) bust in small spacecraft production
...the difference between small and large spacecraft. Standardisation achieved by adapting the CubeSat standard plays a big role in lowering production costs of SSCs. CubeSat is an SSC module architecture, which assumes the use of form-factor cubes with...
June 2015
European lab in the sky: OP-SAT and new potential for ESA spacecraft
... heritage). The expected performance of the second set of cubesat subsystems are way below that of the experimenter’s part ...equivalent processing power of a mass-market PC circa 1990. The cubesat part of the satellite only has one task in this mode ...
