Abstract

From automobiles to ships to aircraft, platforms of transport have changed in shape and size based on new technology and innovations. Over the past twenty years in particular advances in microelectronics, corresponding with the ability to quickly and cheaply manufacture custom higher quality printed circuit boards, has resulted in an expansion of the other domain of transport and infrastructure, sizes of satellites. The advent of “small” satellites has come about both from a natural outgrowth of miniaturization of space-acceptable technology, as well as a method to challenge the paradigm of traditionally large and very expensive spacecraft to date. Small satellites have been typically denominated by mass, described somewhere between 0 and 1000 kg, without a, universally agreed formal definition of how they are subclassified where different references use different ranges of mass. One graphical depiction of some …

Date

January 1, 2023

Authors

David A Barnhart, Rahul Rughani

Book

Next Generation CubeSats and SmallSats

Pages

57-78

Publisher

Elsevier