Back in March I was visiting Glasgow, I was invited to the PocketQube workshop which is a conference supporting people building satellites even smaller than CubeSats. The smallest are 2 inch or 50millimeter cubes and they cost a lot less to launch than a traditional big CubeSat. And I was impressed to see demonstrations of deployable solar cells, attitude control, propulsion and even reentry at these scales. So what can you do with a spacecraft which is so small? Follow me on Twitter for more updates: https://twitter.com/DJSnM I have a discord server where I regularly turn up: https://discord.gg/zStmKbM If you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreon https://www.patreon.com/scottmanley
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How long do cube/pocket sats last in orbit before they're dragged down into the atmosphere?
Can you do a video on how many satellites you could conceivably fit in orbit without huge risk of Kessler? The spaceX plans seem slightly scary.
When launch? Really, why not a Scott Manley satellite?
I'll never be able to fathom how the tiny antennas in cubesats and pocketsats can send and receive without using something the size of the Goldstone dish antenna on the ground. How big a ground antenna is needed?
what kind of signal strength is received on the ground while communicating with these satellites?
When will the first Falcon 9, Long March or Soyuz rocket hit a pocket cube and is there enough mass and momentum to cause damage to the larger rocket. Space might start getting nasty
I want a satellite that is also a working toaster. It will toast bread and return it safely to Earth. Space toast.
Every Starlink should have the 3U cubesat under it, with IR thru UV imaging for horizon to horizon coverage at that altitude, for real time weather and geosciences monitoring, volcanoes, tsunami's, hurricanes wildfires etc, the leap forward in both emergency services responses and prediction modeling would be enormous with that amount of data available.
Huygens Optics on YouTube shows how to make those solid lenses .
Could a variant of the party squeaker be used as a panel deployment mechanism? A gas-producing reaction could fill it to unroll the scroll and drag the panel out.
Reaction wheels? In this volume? At this time of year, Skinner?
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Just yesterday I was just talking to my friends about the possibility of model-scale rockets being feasible options for something like this getting into space, lo and behold this comes to my home page LOL
That's so cool, thanks for sharing Scott!
Thanks Scott. I wonder if human ashes can be orbited in a small sat? Must not be legal or a lot people would be doing it.
How do these metal particles arcing off the thruster not count as contamination?
I desperately need those Tiny Telescope folks to make me a modern Questar. Questar went out of business two weeks ago after 70 years and some sort of consumer tiny telescope would be amazing.
Imagine taking a unicorn back in time to when the US was first developing earth-observation satellites.
I have a good arm, but I don't think I throw a pocket sized satellite into space tho
Seems like a fair price to get an extra inch 😂