A water-electrolysis propulsion system for 3U CubeSats is proposed that could fill the gap in the available propulsion systems at this scale. Combining the advantages of electric propulsion with those ...

The next giant leap in space exploration could start with a small spin around the lab. A new propulsion system for shrunk-down satellites called CubeSats just passed a key lab test, and could be ...

The Coulomb drag is measured by monitoring the spin rate. Comments: Space Propulsion 2016 (Rome, 2-6 May 2016) proceedings paper, 7 pages, 6 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1404 ...

A Japanese propulsion company developing water-based thrusters is set to test its system on a Sony nanosatellite launched earlier in January. Cubesat that launched on SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will ...

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, advancements in CubeSat propulsion, power systems, communication technologies, and payload integration; we also encourage submissions that ...

This Collection welcomes original research articles on CubeSat technologies, ... Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, advancements in CubeSat propulsion, ...

The success of NASA’s MarCO mission means that so-called cubesats likely will travel to distant reaches of our solar system. A replica of the MarCO cubesats at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory ...

Developed by a Colorado-based company named Advanced Space, with help from Terran Orbital, the spacecraft itself is modestly sized, just a 12U cubesat with a mass of around 25 kg. It could fit ...

They proved that a one unit (1U) cubesat—that is, a small, cube-shaped satellite measuring 10 centimeters on all sides—could ...

ThrustMe's NPT30-I2-1U propulsion system installed on the Spacety Beihanghongshi-1 CubeSat. Credit: Spacety HELSINKI — French startup ThrustMe has performed the first on-orbit tests of an ...

Updated 1:20 p.m. Eastern with identity of remanifested cubesat. WASHINGTON — A Sherpa tug has been removed from an upcoming SpaceX rideshare mission after its propulsion system developed a leak ...