24 August 2018
Astrocast and D-Orbit announce InOrbit NOW launch agreement
... will mark the fourth deployment of Astrocast’s spacecraft in orbit. During the planned Astrocast mission, the ten nanosatellites will travel inside the DPOD dispensers, designed by D-Orbit to reduce vibrations and shock levels during launch...
29 April 2020
NASA's new solar sail system to be tested on-board NanoAvionics' satellite
.... In addition, a team of NanoAvionics engineers will provide the support required for testing, integration and operations of the nanosatellite. The FlaSat model has identical software functionality as the final 12U bus hardware, hosting the actual...
March 2022
Smoothing the journey to space with the satellite-as-a-service model
...massive growth in the small satellite and nanosatellite market over the last decade has ...at an altitude of 500 km. The most common payloads for planned nanosatellite missions, certainly until 2023, are Earth observation instruments which, with careful...
July 2018
The rise of interplanetary CubeSats
... 3U (10 × 10 × 34 cm), about the size of a loaf of bread, and the 6U (12 × 24 × 36 cm) the size of a brief-case. To date more than 800 nanosatellites have been launched into low Earth orbit (LEO), with a majority of launches after 2010 by new and...
January 2019
Industry 4.0 will revolutionise the space market
... the global space industry and associated markets. The number and variety of satellites of all sizes - from nanosatellites to large-scale or monolithic satellites - is increasing. However, the transition of the industry from single-item production...
April 2019
Space launch industry analysis
...-breaking number reflects the increase in multiple satellite launches of sub-10 kg CubeSat class of very small satellites (known as nanosatellites). There was another more ominous trend during 2018. In the year that US President Donald Trump laid...
