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Articles tagged: small spacecraft

  • Article, commerce, launchers, technological innovation, Xtenti September 2016 Small launcher market survey

    ...times and global coverage. Therefore, with the growth of the number of smallsat spacecraft follows an increased requirement to place these large constellations of small spacecraft in a wide set of locations. Out of the woodwork As the smallsat market...

    • Article
    • commerce
    • launchers
    • technological innovation
    • Xtenti
    Authors: Daniel Lim    
  • Alexander Lipatov, Institute of Space Research, Konstantin Pichkhadze, Vega Project, Vyacheslav Linkin March 2015 Chasing comets together: the Vega project in the USSR and beyond

    ...possible thanks to former ISE employee A.A. Sukhanov, who currently works at INPE. ISE suggested discussing the possibility of a small spacecraft joint project. The goal of the project is to fly to the Trojan asteroids for exploration. Our Mars rover...

    • Alexander Lipatov
    • Institute of Space Research
    • Konstantin Pichkhadze
    • Vega Project
    • Vyacheslav Linkin
    Authors: Alexander Lipatov     Konstantin Pichkhadze     Vyacheslav Linkin    
  • Colonel John W Wagner, space debris, Space Surveillance Network, The Joint Space Operations Center, Vandenberg Air Force Base July 2014 Beware the situation: how JSpOC tracks space debris

    ... challenges, JSpOC has identified several ‘responsible practices’ to facilitate better small spacecraft deployment and operations. These include asking spacecraft owner/operators to: • provide their requirements, orbital regimes, and deployment...

    • Colonel John W Wagner
    • space debris
    • Space Surveillance Network
    • The Joint Space Operations Center
    • Vandenberg Air Force Base
    Authors: Col. John W. Wagner    
  • fuel, NASA, solar sail, solar sail propulsion January 2017 New oceans beckon for solar sail technology

    ..., the NanoSail-D, a 10 square metre sail that deployed from a 3U CubeSat in low Earth orbit. [A CubeSat is a small spacecraft built from modular 10 cm x 10 cm x 10 cm cubes, each cube being 1U. A 3U CubeSat is built from three 1U modules.] NanoSail...

    • fuel
    • NASA
    • solar sail
    • solar sail propulsion
    Authors: Les Johnson    
  • Communication architecture, Constellation, CubeSat, LEO, Swarm April 2018 Future Cubesat swarms pose significant communications challenges

    ... Layer to Network Layer View; IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, vol. 18, no. 4, pp. 2442-2473, Fourth quarter 2016. 3 Small Spacecraft Technology State of Art, Mission Design Division Staff, NASA Ames Research Center, NASA/TP–2014–216648/REV1...

    • Communication architecture
    • Constellation
    • CubeSat
    • LEO
    • Swarm
    Authors: Lihui Zhang     Ozan Kara     Roger Birkeland     Umuralp Kaytaz    
  • commercial space exploration, green propellant, N2O, Nitrous oxide propellant July 2021 Nitrous oxide – a green propellant for commercial space exploration

    ..., the plans regarding their applications became more ambitious to the extent that a propulsion system on-board small spacecraft would significantly expand the number of applications. Commercialisation demands a change in the paradigm of the specific...

    • commercial space exploration
    • green propellant
    • N2O
    • Nitrous oxide propellant
    Authors: Constantine Milyayev     Jamie Anderson     Praveen Ganapathi Perumal     Vadim Zakirov    
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