Cubesats for Solar System Exploration |
Cubesats for Solar System Exploration |
Aug 8 2020, 05:14 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 715 Joined: 22-April 05 Member No.: 351 |
[ADMIN NOTE: New topic started using moved posts from Pallas telescopic observation topic. Please read and keep rule 1.9 in mind. Thanks!]
I was hoping that NASA would select the Athena mission to do a flyby of Pallas using a cubesat spacecraft under the SIMPLEx program. It selected the Janus mission to flyby two near Earth asteroid binary systems instead. The Athena team plans to submit again. -------------------- |
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Aug 20 2020, 06:04 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 684 Joined: 24-July 15 Member No.: 7619 |
Looks like the cubesat-solar sail is now in the extended mission...
https://spacenews.com/solar-sail-spacecraft...tended-mission/ The next size up seems to be CubeSail, designed by CU Aerospace (Champaign-Urbana Aerospace) and the University of Illinois, is a low-cost flight experiment based on the UltraSail concept. This experiment uses two CubeSat satellites to deploy a 20 sq. meter solar sail, which can play the same role as propellant on a conventional spacecraft. https://www.cubesail.us/ |
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Aug 21 2020, 01:43 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2530 Joined: 20-April 05 Member No.: 321 |
There are multiple reasons why the Sun is not an easy object for gravity assists.
Most compelling for the reason at hand, the Sun is not close in terms of delta-v; it is actually the single object in the universe that requires the most delta-v to reach. It is much less delta-v to reach Jupiter. |
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