July 2018
The rise of interplanetary CubeSats
.... Engineer Joel Steinkraus uses sunlight to test the solar arrays on one of the Mars Cube One (MarCO) spacecraft at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Interplanetary challenges Interplanetary CubeSats, thanks to their low-cost, could perform highrisk...
September 2019
A new era in planetary defence missions
... near-Earth asteroids), planetary defence efforts have not risen to the level, or the budgets, of having dedicated spacecraft missions. The most immediately relevant objects for planetary defence are asteroids of an intermediate scale, ones on the...
October 2017
Exploring Jupiter’s icy moons
... life?’ The JUICE payload consists of 10 state-of-the-art instruments plus one experiment that uses the spacecraft telecommunication system with ground-based telescopes. This payload, summarised in Table 1, is capable of addressing all of the mission...
February 2018
CubeSats changing the landscape for ‘app’ developers
... that can run on any nanosatellite regardless of the underlying hardware. It is also possible to hide the complexity of the spacecraft, for instance, via the low-level interfaces to the various on-board devices by providing high-level interfaces...
