The United States Air Force and Orbital Sciences Corporation (Orbital) completed development and demonstration of a new low cost space launch vehicle for launching small satellites using surplus Minuteman II rocket motors melded with commercial launch vehicle technology. The Orbital Suborbital Program Space Launch Vehicle (OSPSLV, aka OSP Minotaur) successfully achieved all mission objectives w...

The launch and successful operation of the Mars Cube One (MarCO) CubeSat in May 2018 heralded a new era solar system exploration setup first Interplanetary Network (ICN). success this mission could give rise an DTN–Based network, which Nanosatellite, as DTN custody node, plays role Data Mule to collect data from rovers on planet such Mars. In order maximize contact volume is amount transmitting...

A decentralized control algorithm for the construction of a tetrahedral configuration using differential lift and drag forces is proposed in this paper. Four 3U CubeSats launched LEO are considered. Satellite attitude-controlled motion relative to incoming airflow provides required order change translational motion. The developed allows one track reference trajectories satellites at vertices te...

In this paper, a lab-on-chip system dedicated to fungi cultivation in Earth’s gravity and simulated microgravity, being solution that could be used future nanosatellite missions, is shown. For the first time, fully glass structure enabling proper environment for of species—Fusarium culmorum—is presented. Apart from biological validation cultures with use system, tests were carried out under ind...