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 ...

The cereal-box sized GomX-4B – ESA's biggest small CubeSat yet flown – has completed its mission for the Agency, testing out new miniaturised technologies including: intersatellite link ...

Cubesat developers, however, are eager to employ small propulsion systems to enable their satellites to remain in their desired orbit, form constellations and conduct proximity operations, said ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Troy Howe, founder and president of Howe Industries, described it as a “simple and safe propulsion system.” It could be particularly game-changing for CubeSats because, unlike big satellites ...

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 ...