Sentences with phrase «called cubesats»

You're also known for building tiny satellite telescopes called CubeSats.

To test the concept, scientists have built two small satellites called cubesats that will practice lining up in orbit to construct a single telescope with a focal length as large as the distance between them.

Gripper hands could be used to repair or move dead satellites, or help miniature satellites called CubeSats stick to larger spacecraft like barnacles, Parness says.

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.

That could make inexpensive pocket - sized satellites called CubeSats easier and cheaper to launch, as Science has previously reported.

Not exact matches

CubeSats are also opening space to new participants; Bruce Yost, deputy manager of the small spacecraft integrated product team at NASA's Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California, calls it «the democratization of space.»

The CubeSat mission, called the Colorado Student Space Weather Experiment (CSSWE), housed a small telescope to measure the flux of solar energetic protons and Earth's radiation belt electrons.

Spire currently has 12 of its shoebox - sized CubeSats, called «Lemurs,» in low - Earth orbit — all that's necessary to meet NOAA's requirements, Platzer says.

The host satellite, built by Danish cubesat specialist GomSpace, is a so - called 6U cubesat measuring 20x30x10 centimeters.