The most common example of this is solar sails. Let's start with chemical propulsion. This is probably the least helpful ...

CubeSats have a lot of advantages. They are small, inexpensive, and easily reproducible. But those advantages also come with ...

The solar sail generates power by using photons emitted by the sun ... and can be mounted on a 12U CubeSat, or a class of nanosatellites using a standard size and form factor. The institute said its ...

Solar sailing is elegant not only in concept but ... a standard size and shape for today’s cubical satellites, or CubeSats. It’s fun to realize that since there’s hardly any air in Earth ...

allowing it to be mounted on a 12U CubeSat. KARI plans to use solar sail technology not only for deep space exploration but also to address the issue of space debris present in low Earth orbit.

Over one hundred CubeSats have been launched by hundreds ... Already, four PocketQubes are scheduled for launch in November to a 700km solar synchronous orbit, including $50SAT, a small radio ...

AMSAT, the Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation, joined forces with students from Rochester Institute of Technology to create a MPPT attached to a Fox-1B CubeSat ... output of solar panels on ...

The team uses data both from FORESAIL CubeSat missions and international missions ... the Finnish Meteorological Institute is led by Pekka Janhunen. The electric solar wind sail, or e-sail for short, ...

NEW ORLEANS — Solar sails that allow satellites to glide on the light from the sun could soon become a reality. The technology would allow scientists to provide earlier warnings of space weather ...

CubeSat is being showcased by Science News. Designed at built at CU Boulder and the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, CIRBE is conducting sophisticated, fine-grain measurements of the Van ...