Analysis: This will provide the required capital for the Nanoracks External Platform to be delivered to ISS in the next year or so. Also, I would not be surprised if some of the money were to be used to expand the company into asteroid/Moon/Mars exploration activities.
Quote from: Danderman on 06/17/2013 03:40 pmAnalysis: This will provide the required capital for the Nanoracks External Platform to be delivered to ISS in the next year or so. Also, I would not be surprised if some of the money were to be used to expand the company into asteroid/Moon/Mars exploration activities.Care to speculate on the BEO exploration activities that would be conducted/offered?
My speculation is just that. I would imagine that when crewed spacecraft are sent out there, their confined volumes would lend themselves to small experiments, such as those supported by Nanoracks.
The first Lithuanian-made satellite Lituanica SAT-1 departs for NASA space center in the US on October 17th.
Quote from: Danderman on 10/15/2013 02:34 pmThe first Lithuanian-made satellite Lituanica SAT-1 departs for NASA space center in the US on October 17th.Here's web page for this nanosatellite: Lituanica SAT-1Unfortunately, more detailed info is only in Lithuanian. They are probably too busy now to update English version...
Ha ha. I appears that Cygnus mission will in fact carry TWO Lithuanian "first" satellites. Second one (or first...) is called LitSat-1. Actually, this one is a bit more interesting, as it will carry prototype of piezoelectric motor based attitude control system. Unfortunately, no info in English. Here's one google-tranlated article:Article on LitSat-1
Two Lithuanian Amateur Radio CubeSats Plan 2013 Launch http://amsat-uk.org/2013/06/26/two-lithuanian-cubesats/It is hoped that two Lithuanian satellites will be among the CubeSats sent by Nanoracks LLC to the International Space Station (ISS) on the SpaceX CRS-3 mission in November, 2013. They will be deployed from the ISS by the JEM Small Satellite Orbital Deployer (J-SSOD) of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA).The Kaunas University of Technology is developing LituanicaSAT-1 while the Lithuanian Space Federation is working on LitSat-1.