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What are the use cases and challenges for a cubesat that would take pictures of other satellites?
I am currently working with a university team in designing a cubesat. I would like to propose to the team that we design a satellite that is able to take pictures of other satellites orbiting nearby. ...
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Are there any CubeSat telescopes? What are the requirements?
Are there any CubeSats that perform as telescopes for deep-space photography? If I have a CubeSat of let's say 6U, designed for Earth Observation (meaning it could be restricted in terms of the camera ...
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how to procure a Launch vehicle for injecting a cubesat into LEO at LOW COST?
Me and my team are working on sending Cubesats just beyond the Karmann line. For which we obviously need a launch vehicle and would like to procure one or if possible build one. If any aerospace ...
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Local space radiation measurement by 1U CubeSat
As far as I know, the general influx of ionizing radiation received by a CubeSat in LEO is mostly trapped protons and electrons, solar protons, galactic cosmic radiation, and neutrons. If the CubeSat ...
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What is the longest working cubesat?
For example VZLUSAT-1 is 5 years old and it is still working.
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Number of satellites needed for global 4-fold coverage as a function of altitude?
I want to estimate how many satellites (and how many number of planes) are needed for achieving a 4-fold global coverage on earth (global coverage with at least 4 satellites in view in each location). ...
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Could a single CubeSat provide location services on another celestial body such as Mars? Could a constellation do it?
From my understanding, by having two satellites emit a signal simultaneously (carrying atomic clocks to achieve it), a ground device could measure the difference in times of arrival to determine its ...
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How do you find the temperature of an orbiting aluminum sheet 10x10 cm
I'm trying to find the temperature of a CubeSat in orbit at 140km. I'm trying to use the Stefan-Boltzmann law but don't know how to incorporate the energy from sunlight. I'm using this as a check for ...
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Operator access to a cube satellite or any educational satellite
I would like to have free or low-cost access to an existing CubeSat (educational satellite) for educational purposes. I wish to familiarise myself with the end to end command & control activities, ...
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How close will the cubesats be when numerous of them are launched simultaneously?
Checking the onboard video of PSLV C43 gives a feel like the CubeSats are released in very proximity. Does this mean that these CubeSats will be orbiting in such very close proximity through out ...
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Distributed computational power-sharing and orbital supercomputer
I had an interesting conversation last night with a nanosatellite engineer about how much computational power is required in a nanosatellite constellation and if it's necessary. I had an idea or a ...
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Looking for info about commercial usage of satellites with examples [closed]
I'm doing research for an article and I'm looking for info about usage of satellites by commercial companies. For instance, usage of small satellites by insurance companies (imaging and etc.) or ...
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Design Software Recommendations
I'm currently working on "base stones" of future cubesat mission and I'm doing some research for designing or simulation of cubesats. Software that I found on google costs enormous price and I'm ...
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Data from Cubesat as web API
I’m doing some research for possible cubesat mission and I spent days on the internet and in books trying to find a simple answer to my dumb question. I’m completely new in this field so I’m not sure ...
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How do Tom & Jerry (CANYVAL-X) measure their alignment with a distance source accurately?
According to the Spaceflight 101 article CANYVAL-X – Tom & Jerry: CANYVAL-X is a two-satellite CubeSat mission aiming to demonstrate a Vision Alignment System that could enable a virtual ...
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