nanosatellite

When the Heavens Went on Sale: The Misfits and Geniuses Racing to Put Space Within Reach

by Ashlee Vance  · 8 May 2023  · 558pp  · 175,965 words

of four customers. Two of the satellites were made by Spire, a satellite start-up that specialized in tracking ships, planes, and weather changes. Tyvak Nano-Satellite Systems also had a weather satellite on board, while a group of California high school students had built a small satellite for a data-gathering

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Five Billion Years of Solitude: The Search for Life Among the Stars

by Lee Billings  · 2 Oct 2013  · 326pp  · 97,089 words

MIT/Draper Laboratory project she helmed called “ExoplanetSat” lay at the crux of Seager’s interlinked plans. Already well along in development, ExoplanetSat was a “nanosatellite,” a golden metal rectangular box no bigger than a loaf of bread, jam-packed with a tiny telescope, deployable solar panels, and a miniaturized avionics

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dollars apiece—dirt cheap for any hardware destined for orbit. Each would operate in low Earth orbit for a minimum of one to two years. Nanosatellites are so small that they typically do not require dedicated launch vehicles; instead, they piggyback on rockets launching larger primary payloads. Seager envisioned eventually launching

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, brightest stars for potentially habitable transiting planets. The first prototype was set to launch as early as 2013 as part of a NASA program supporting nanosatellites. The practical expertise she would gain in engineering and management from ExoplanetSat’s success would make Seager a more appealing choice for involvement in future

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and the technology for cheap interplanetary spacecraft. Seager would provide her expertise in building small telescopes and on-orbit communications, acquired via her work with nanosatellites, as well as her access to MIT’s community of researchers and her knowledge of remote photometric and spectroscopic observations. She saw the venture as

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Exponential Organizations: Why New Organizations Are Ten Times Better, Faster, and Cheaper Than Yours (And What to Do About It)

by Salim Ismail and Yuri van Geest  · 17 Oct 2014  · 292pp  · 85,151 words

other satellite efforts in the 90s. Today, twenty years later, a new breed of satellite companies—Skybox, Planet Labs, Nanosatisfi and Satellogic—are all launching nanosatellites (which are, essentially, the size of a shoebox). The cost per launch is about $100,000 per satellite—a fraction of the $1 billion Iridium

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incurred per launch for its constellation. More important, by launching a cluster of nanosatellites operating in a coordinated, meshed configuration, the capability of these new satellites blows away what the previous generation could do. For example, Planet Labs already

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the increasing wattage along the Amazon River at night? Or track every container ship, in real time, around the world? Soon you can—either via nanosatellites or global Internet access initiatives such a Google’s Project Loon and Facebook’s drones strategies. Even closer down this road is the Google autonomous

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$100 and can be flown at a variety of altitudes, their 5-gigapixel cameras capturing everything in the landscape below. And, finally, consider the several nanosatellite companies which are launching mesh configurations of hundreds of satellites into low Earth orbit, and which will provide real-time video and images anywhere on

Rebooting India: Realizing a Billion Aspirations

by Nandan Nilekani  · 4 Feb 2016  · 332pp  · 100,601 words

like SpaceX are now pushing the barriers for spacecraft development and innovation, stepping firmly onto what used to be NASA’s playing field.20 As nanosatellites become cheaper, it’s likely that more private operators will enter this space in India as well. A for-profit organization in India is now

Accessory to War: The Unspoken Alliance Between Astrophysics and the Military

by Neil Degrasse Tyson and Avis Lang  · 10 Sep 2018  · 745pp  · 207,187 words

asteroid mining won’t start tomorrow—although startups are multiplying, and the Finnish Meteorological Institute, for instance, is proposing a fleet of solar-wind-powered nanosatellites to collect data on the composition of several hundred asteroids—we’ll have to come up with other solutions.5 Maybe someone will invent a

Exponential: How Accelerating Technology Is Leaving Us Behind and What to Do About It

by Azeem Azhar  · 6 Sep 2021  · 447pp  · 111,991 words

become serious. The combination of large-scale population data and personal information could help fine-tune diets for health. A decade from now, scores of nanosatellites providing real-time sensor data might help us keep track of our natural resources – including coral reefs, ocean ecosystems and forests. Scientists plan to map