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Re: Cubesat and Nanosat Missions
« Reply #40 on: 09/29/2017 06:48 pm »
Should this thread be moved to the "Commercial Space Flight General" section, or should we make a similar thread there?  Some of the posts here don't have anything to do with ISS.
Sat deployments really has nothing to do with the rest of the In-Space Hardware Sub Section so I would recommend moving it and a few other threads over. Maybe move this one over to CSFG like you say and rename it as the Secondary Payload deployments General thread and create a new ISS specific Satellite Deployments thread in the actual ISS Sub Section instead of in this Sub section.

Another option would be to create a new dedicated Satellites Section with subsections for either manufacturer or continent (to keep number of subsections short because their are to many nations). I would prefer the continent option.
« Last Edit: 09/29/2017 06:59 pm by russianhalo117 »

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Re: Cubesat and Nanosat Missions
« Reply #41 on: 04/30/2018 04:38 pm »
Coast Guard to deploy 2x cubesats for receiving EPIRB signals.

www.parabolicarc.com/2018/04/30/coast-guard-preparing-launch-satellites/

Each Polar Scout cubesat will pass over the North Pole every 90 to 100 minutes and will be able to detect EPIRB signals from vessels in the Arctic for about 12 minutes on each orbit. The cubesats will circle the earth 15 or 16 times a day, providing more than three hours of search and rescue coverage in the Arctic daily.

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Re: Cubesat and Nanosat Missions
« Reply #42 on: 04/30/2018 04:50 pm »
Coast Guard to deploy 2x cubesats for receiving EPIRB signals.

www.parabolicarc.com/2018/04/30/coast-guard-preparing-launch-satellites/

Each Polar Scout cubesat will pass over the North Pole every 90 to 100 minutes and will be able to detect EPIRB signals from vessels in the Arctic for about 12 minutes on each orbit. The cubesats will circle the earth 15 or 16 times a day, providing more than three hours of search and rescue coverage in the Arctic daily.

These are scheduled to fly on SSO-A, there are probably a couple more links in that thread.

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Re: Cubesat and Nanosat Missions
« Reply #43 on: 11/26/2018 07:38 pm »
Congratulations to Insight team. The first deep space Marco cubesats were a success, providing live comms relay coverage of landing.

After this success expect to see a lot more cubesats and smallsats used for deep space missions.

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Re: Cubesat and Nanosat Missions
« Reply #44 on: 11/27/2018 01:32 am »
An article on Marco cubesats. Now talk on future mission for them. At very least seeing how long they last.

spacenews.com/marco-success-vindicates-use-of-cubesats-on-deep-space-missions/

Any future mission will need funding, to pay for ground crew and also DSN time.

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Re: Cubesat and Nanosat Missions
« Reply #45 on: 01/17/2019 03:32 pm »

m.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Engineering_Technology/Hera/CubeSats_joining_Hera_mission_to_asteroid_system

When ESA’s planned Hera mission journeys to its target binary asteroid system, it will not be alone. The spacecraft will carry two tiny CubeSats for deployment around – and eventual landing on – the Didymos asteroids. 

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Re: Cubesat and Nanosat Missions
« Reply #46 on: 02/26/2019 04:06 pm »
An article on Marco cubesats. Now talk on future mission for them. At very least seeing how long they last.

spacenews.com/marco-success-vindicates-use-of-cubesats-on-deep-space-missions/

Any future mission will need funding, to pay for ground crew and also DSN time.
Latest FISO webcast on Marco. 20Feb19

http://fiso.spiritastro.net/archivelist.htm


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Re: Cubesat and Nanosat Missions
« Reply #47 on: 05/25/2019 06:48 pm »

https://www.isispace.nl/news/isispace-selected-by-the-hawaii-space-flight-laboratory-to-realize-a-6u-platform/

The mission will test several novel technologies including an interferometric imaging approach for acquiring the spectral data, and NASA/JPL’s Barrier InfraRed Detector technology. In addition to the HSFL and ISIS, the team includes the Hawaii Institute of Geophysics and Planetology (HIGP), the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, West Coast Solutions, Quest Unlimited, American Infrared (AIRS), SaraniaSat, and New England Optical Systems (NEOS). The project received funding from NASA’s Earth Science Technology Office InVEST program.

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Re: Cubesat and Nanosat Missions
« Reply #48 on: 07/10/2019 06:04 pm »

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Re: Cubesat and Nanosat Missions
« Reply #49 on: 11/08/2019 05:15 pm »


https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2019/lunar-icecube-mission-to-locate-study-resources-needed-for-sustained-presence-on-moon

The Lunar IceCube mission, led by Morehead State University in Morehead, Kentucky, will study water distribution and interaction on the Moon. The mission will carry a NASA instrument called Broadband InfraRed Compact High-Resolution Exploration Spectrometer (BIRCHES) to investigate the distribution of water and other organic volatiles. NASA scientists will use this data to understand where the water is on the Moon, its origins and how we can use it.


Here is link on BIT 3 thruster from Busek

http://busek.com/technologies__ion.htm

While this planned to fly on first SLS mission it would also be prime candidate for RL Electron launch, now that they are offer rides direct to lunar orbit.

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Re: Cubesat and Nanosat Missions
« Reply #50 on: 11/14/2019 04:10 pm »

http://www.parabolicarc.com/2019/11/14/suitcase-sized-spacecraft-to-explore-asteroid/

This is a suitcase-sized nanospacecraft based on the CubeSat design employing standardised 10 cm cubic units within which electronic boards can be stacked and subsystems attached. M-Argo is a 12-unit CubeSat – with a 22 x 22 x 34 cm body – that would hitch a ride on the launch of a larger space mission whose trajectory takes it beyond Earth orbit, such as astronomy missions to a Sun–Earth Lagrange point.
The CubeSat would then use its own miniaturised electric thruster to take it into deep space and rendezvous with an asteroid, which it would survey using a multispectral camera and a laser altimeter to look for resources  such as hydrated minerals that could be extracted in future. Other miniaturised payloads are also being considered.

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Re: Cubesat and Nanosat Missions
« Reply #51 on: 12/07/2019 09:01 pm »

http://parabolicarc.com/2019/12/07/new-reentry-cubesat-reaches-orbit/

CubeSats are low-cost nanosatellites based around standard 10 cm units and typically end their spaceflights burning up in the atmosphere as their orbits gradually decay. But the three-unit Qarman (QubeSat for Aerothermodynamic Research and Measurements on Ablation) is designed with this fiery fate in mind.
Designed for ESA by Belgium’s Von Karman Institute, Qarman will use internal temperature, pressure and brightness sensors to gather precious data on the extreme conditions of reentry as its leading edges are enveloped in scorching plasma.
Qarman’s blunt-nosed front contains most of its sensors, protected by a cork-based heatshield. The CubeSat is expected to survive its reentry, although not its subsequent fall to Earth – making it imperative that its results make it back in the time in between, using the Iridium commercial satellite network.

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Re: Cubesat and Nanosat Missions
« Reply #52 on: 03/13/2021 02:45 am »
Keeping this out of the ISS section to keep out any bloat.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-myanmar-politics-satellite-japan-excl-idUSKBN2B41O1

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Myanmar's first satellite is being held on board the International Space Station following the Myanmar coup, while Japan's space agency and a Japanese university decide what to do with it

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