November 2018
Monitoring illegal rainforest deforestation
... and small mechanical envelope. Optical layout of the telescope. The proposed operational system based on the 16U CubeSat standard. All mirror substrates are manufactured on ZERODUR low CTE (low coefficient of thermal expansion) ceramics. A broadband...
August 2018
Measuring the pulse of Mars
... stature of MarCO means that certain modifications to otherwise standard technology have been made, in order to give the CubeSats the best chance of survival on this ambitious journey. “Deep space is a challenging environment over distances that are...
January 2017
Israeli students inspired by nano-satellite projects
... Work on Duchifat-3 has already started. This three unit CubeSat will likely include a different kind of payload and, unlike... two different layouts: some satellites will be a one CubeSat unit (named Pawns) structure, like Duchifat-1, however the...
April 2019
Space launch industry analysis
... more than in previous years. This record-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...
21 August 2017
First Slovak satellite launched into space
...send its own satellite into space and although the 1U CubeSat project may seem small in dimensions, big things are...an international collaboration aimed at putting a fleet of multiple CubeSats into space to study gamma ray bursts – extremely energetic ...
November 2020
Walking on the Moon
... a launch mass of 120 kg and NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover some 900 kg. The Asagumo rover is effectively a ‘walking CubeSat’ - its cubical body (without legs) measures 10 cm on each side. Its first outing – dubbed ‘Mission One’ - is essentially...
