Cubesat 10x10x10cm 1kg Payload, Lets here it then... |
Cubesat 10x10x10cm 1kg Payload, Lets here it then... |
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I'm sure many of you will be familar with the CubeSat project, in fact some of you may well have worked on one.
![]() So lets hear it, what would you do with a 10x10x10cm 1kg payload in a CubeSat, beside the obvious like stick a camera in it and photograph your house. Who knows, perhaps one day we may see the launch of the USF CubeSat ![]() |
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You'd struggle to justify putting a tiny tiny scope in orbit and show a benefit compared to a £1500 9" scope on the ground - the work of Damien Peach with a modest scope and good seing is utterly remarkable. Canada has a suitcase size sat that does excellent work for extrasolar planets, but thats an order of magnitude or two outside the scope (no pun intended) of a Cubesat.
Cubesats to date have been mainly an engineering exercise ( and a superb one ) - but I'm sure there's something they could really do...maybe fields and particles with a cluster of a few of them - who knows. They need a 'killer ap' - and suddenly, once you've got $200k, and a spare 10kg on a Falcon 1, you've got something amazing. Doug |
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