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Sep092020 Comments Off on BST at “ESA Industry Space Days” in September 2020 Berlin Space Technologies will be present at the virtual ESA Industry Space Days on 16. – 17. September 2020. ...
The 2020 edition of the Small Satellite Conference is being held virtually and our participation will include virtual demonstrations of some of our new and existing products every day of the conference. You can find more details on our...
Recently we started building out our solar panels for the Serenity CubeSat, a project we have been working on with Teachers in Space. The process we used to build them is featured the two videos below. There were problems...
SteamJet planned to perform the first in-orbit demonstration of a reliable, compact, and affordable water-based propulsion system launched from a Soyuz. Nevertheless, this launch has been delayed and is now canceled. This is the reason why our second test...
SteamJet announced a launch service agreement with Momentus (www.momentus.space), provider of in-space transportation services for satellites. It is our first technology demonstration mission for a reliable, compact, and available water-based propulsion system that will be launched from a Soyuz...
Today, I found out that Bob Cringely has been working on a space startup that will launch CubeSats to orbit using a rapid turnaround method. The details (as such) can be found at his web site, cringely.com.
If you need...
In November 2019 we successfully launched the data package that was destined for the Discovery satellite. Alba Orbital was kind enough to carry the chip in their hardware for Mini-Cubes. The neat thing is that you can track the...
Time for one of those good news/bad news posts.
The bad news is that Discovery PocketQube is not going on the RocketLab flight as planned.
The good news is that all of the images, books, videos, etc are still flying.
So what...
We have finally installed a vacuum chamber that can drop the pressure to 2,500 mTorr (we can go to 500 mTorr) if we need it. That pressure is pretty close to what Discovery will experience in space. I ran...
Today, I will be going wheels up bound for Glosgow, Scotland. The 3rd PocketQube workshop is starting on Thursday and I am planning to give a talk on the progress we have had here. A few more milestones, some...