... constellation size. These best practices directly address, and in a complementary manner even surpass, existing guidance and standards published by groups such as the Inter-Agency Space Debris Coordination Committee (IADC), the U.N. Committee on the...
...Earth space pollution appeared and continues to grow.4,5,6 Eco-standards for automobile fuel have been in place for a ...for example, changes in perception or the use of stricter green standards. The model can be applied to assess the eco-credentials of...
... international nature of the resulting marketplace supporting CubeSats. It’s hard to realise that prior to the emergence of the CubeSat standard, Surrey Space, Ltd. and its class of satellites down to about 100 kg, were considered the smallest useful...
...next level of abstraction. Almost nobody builds their own satellite standard anymore – it doesn’t make sense to re-invent the... more than 200 CubeSats from the International Space Station. The second standard, PocketQube, is a 5 cm cube with a mass of ...
... the need to ensure hardened protection against solar and cosmic radiation. ESA’s CryoSat-2 satellite uses an Agency-standard ERC32 computer. Writing code that runs on this microprocessor today is equivalent to programming for a mass-market PC circa...
...-bound systems should be the first step, followed by the design and deployment of astronomical devices built to specific standards. These design regulations could be a pathfinder for the more sophisticated systems that follow - just as they are...