Lunar IceCube
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Lunar IceCube was a NASA nanosatellite orbiter mission that was intended to prospect, locate, and estimate amount and composition of water ice deposits on the Moon for future exploitation. It was laun
Iodine BIT-3 (Busek Ion Thruster) in operation
Webb's First Deep Field
Stacked image of Dimorphos true orientation
CubeSat
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A CubeSat is a class of small satellite with a form factor of 10 cm cubes. CubeSats have a mass of no more than 2 kg per unit, and often use commercial off-the-shelf components for their electronics a
Lunar IceCube
…Technologies for Exploration Partnerships) and awarded a contract worth up to US$7.9 million for further development. The Lunar IceCube spacecraft has a 6U CubeSat format, with a mass of about 14 kg (31 lb). It is one of ten CubeSats carried on board the maiden flight of the SLS, Artemis 1, as secondary payloads…
Ncube-2, a Norwegian CubeSat (10 cm (3.9 in) cube)
1U CubeSat structure
Scientist holding a CubeSat chassis
Near-Earth Asteroid Scout concept: a controllable solar sail CubeSat