... Launch System (SLS), up-scaled Parker probe heatshield technology, and solid propulsion engines, can be used to send a CubeSat-class spacecraft with a mass of 3 kilograms on a path to check out the interstellar tourist. The anticipated launch date...
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At a recent budget meeting, the Canadian government announced its plan to provide $80.9 million over the next five years to boost its space sector. The investment will be used to develop emerging technologies, such as a radar instrument that will be...
The small satellites industry is one of the fastest growing fields space exploration, seeing a 205% increase in the last year alone, according to a recent report by SpaceWorks. As is the case in any field, certain industry requirements are in ...
... years. "There's big potential in these small packages," said John Baker, the MarCO program manager at JPL. "CubeSats - part of a larger group of spacecraft called SmallSats - are a new platform for space exploration that is affordable to more...
...just helped to demonstrate the first coordinated manoeuvre between two CubeSats in low-Earth orbit. "Demonstrations such as this ... didn’t stop there though, as after proving that the CubeSats could talk cooperatively to one another, the one being told...