Sentences with phrase «cubesat technology»

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Formerly known as NanoSatisfi, Spire once hit up backers on Kickstarter to help it build cubesats with technology adapted from consumer electronics.

Proponents say the technology used in the planned $ 5.45 - million LightSail 2 demonstration, funded by the nonprofit Planetary Society, could maneuver low - cost satellites called CubeSats in Earth orbit without fuel.

On its fifth flight, for instance, Rocket Lab is scheduled to carry 10 NASA - funded CubeSats that will include experiments to monitor space weather and Earth's radiation belts, and conduct technology demonstrations for solar sails and on - orbit repairs.

CubeSats started becoming part of the scientific lexicon in the early 2000s, when a Stanford professor wanted to give his students the chance to build and work with space technology.

The next generation of CubeSat students will get their satellites into space even more efficiently, as improving technology makes launches economically and environmentally easier.

Since 2011, through NASA's CubeSat Launch Initiative, 40 small spacecraft have already launched from rockets and produced years» worth of data, while teaching students the basics of space technology.

«The National Academy of Sciences recently convened a meeting to look at science missions in CubeSats,» said Bryce Tappan, an explosives chemist at Los Alamos National Laboratory and lead researcher on the CubeSat Propulsion Concept team, «and identified propulsion as one of the primary categories of technology that needs to be developed.»

«Remotely piloted aircraft are enhancing NASA science investigations and serve as a platform to expand technology development for aircraft, cubesats and other platforms,» said Wallops Director's Office official Mike Hitch.

A CubeSat's utility in space seems limited only by its size and the imagination of its designers and users — governments, universities and private companies increasingly rely on them for everything from broadband remote monitoring of Earth to performing on - orbit science experiments as well as test - flying novel propulsion and communications technologies.

Ved Chirayath's Space Vikings photo seeks to bind past, present, and future, with old - world explorers meeting «CubeSat» technology.