Most CubeSats weigh less than a bowling ball, and some are small enough to hold in your hand. But the impact these instruments are having on space exploration is gigantic. CubeSats – miniature, agile ...

The Advanced Electrical Bus (ALBus) mission is a technology demonstration of resettable Shape Memory Alloy (SMA) mechanisms for deployable solar arrays and a pathfinder for high power density CubeSats ...

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, ...

Electrical power system (EPS) designs for NASA’s spacecraft have a powerful and essential subsystem that surrounds the electrical power generation, storage, and distribution. It encompasses a large ...

Whether discovering exoplanets or measuring the size of an asteroid, cubesats are affordable throughout the space community, even to small startup, private companies and university laboratories. When ...

This article was originally featured on The Conversation. Most CubeSats weigh less than a bowling ball, and some are small enough to hold in your hand. But the impact these instruments are having on ...