Clyde Space has won a SMART Scotland award; an innovation grant from the Scottish Executive, representing funding of £50k (GBP). The grant will be used to develop a high efficiency, plug-n-play power ...

ESA’s latest CubeSat mission is destined to never leave the ground. Instead it is doing its duty as an opened-out ‘FlatSat’ – with its interlinked subsystems spread out across a table at the Agency’s ...

CubeSats have a lot of advantages. They are small, inexpensive, and easily reproducible. But those advantages also come with significant disadvantages—they have trouble linking into broader ...

Various power-generating system methods 2 can be applied to space-based electrical power subsystems (EPS) to power spacecraft (Fig. 1). CubeSat designers need to contend with thermal design, payloads, ...

A CubeSat is a miniaturized spacecraft that orbit the earth. The basic design of a cubesat is a 10-centimeter (4-inch) cube with a mass of less than 1.33 kilograms (2.93 lbs.). Once in space, this can ...

CAD view of the 3U LIGHT-1 CubeSat mission showing (left) the main subsystems. These fit within 1.3 U, leaving 1.7 U for the 2 gamma–ray detector payloads at the top and bottom of the spacecraft.