Handy, because the 12U CubeSat built by NanoAvionics is hardly ... approximately 25 minutes later, the solar sail will deploy. Cameras onboard the spacecraft will monitor the deployment.

The Advanced Composite Solar Sail System (ACS3), consisting of a CubeSat the size of a microwave oven and a solar sail, took off on board a Rocket Lab Electron rocket from Launch Complex I on the ...

Description: STARDUST aims to design, build, and test a passive deorbit device using a drag sail that will unsure a safe and timely re-entry of a CubeSat into Earth’s atmosphere. The aim of the device ...

A CubeSat might get right in there among them ... would search for ices in lunar polar craters by using its solar sail (which is primarily for propulsion) as a mirror to shine sunlight into ...

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, ...