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

The desire to explore has compelled many to create new technologies for millennia. For example, we invented ships that ...

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 ...

A CubeSat is a very small satellite that can hitch ... A computer, a battery, and some solar cells. Well, you probably want to hear back from it, so then you need a radio. Oh, and an antenna.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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, ...