February 2018
CubeSats changing the landscape for ‘app’ developers
... for nanosatellites to simplify its orchestration; for instance, starting and stopping onboard apps. [5] ESA’s OPS-SAT mini-satellite is made up of three standardised 10 x 10 x 10 cm CubeSat units with deployable solar panels on each side. The core...
July 2021
Nitrous oxide – a green propellant for commercial space exploration
...using N2O on-board the University of Surrey’s UoSat-12 mini-satellite. left: N2O monopropellant thruster during firing. The thruster...concept of a multi-purpose propulsion system for small satellites using nitrous oxide as the main propellant has also ...
February 2016
200 Days in Space: Living in Orbit
... open the door on the other side and slide the table out. And that object, such as a mini-satellite, is now ready to be picked up by the Japanese robotic arm and deployed in its orbit. Sometimes, if our colleagues bug...
