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Japan’s SS-520 CubeSat Launch Vehicle Achieves Success on Second Try
- avmich 9y agoThis is major success, showing possibilities for launching small satellites inexpensively. Congratulations to JAXA!
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- themodelplumber 9y agoI've had that one so many times lately. One time I accidentally clicked OK on the modal. Hopefully it's nothing too nasty.
- m_mueller 9y agoWeight and size miniaturization of this thing sound pretty badass to me. JAXA seems in a good position here. Does this havr any effects on Electron, i.e. grab away the low end of their market?
- syedkarim 9y agoThis seems to be a JAXA (Japanese NASA) project, so I am guessing commercializing isn't a priority, which is sad. But now that they've shown that an overgrown sounding rocket built with pretty standard technology can get to orbit, maybe there will be others closely following. Note: Although the Electron has heritage from a sounding rocket, it is a completely new breed of animal.
- baybal2 9y agoMuch more on Chinese solid fuel lvs from X-Space and Russian second hand, repurposed icbms
- azernik 9y agoThis aims for an even smaller-sat market than Electron. Electron is going for about 200kg, for $6M per launch - a bit impractical for cubesat manufacturers unless they're willing to blow a lot of their propellant budget on an initial orbit change. This is aiming at around 5kg to orbit for about 500k - more expensive per kg, but allows a cubesat customer like Planet Labs to get their preferred orbit per-satellite. In the space business Electron payloads would be called minisats, while SS-520-4 payloads would be called nanosats.
- planteen 9y agoElectron can launch many CubeSats at once with a dispenser. So saying it can't do CubeSat class is not correct. This is what the upcoming NASA ELaNa XIX is doing: https://www.nasa.gov/content/upcoming-elana-cubesat-launches https://www.nasa.gov/content/upcoming-elana-cubesat-launches It also possible to have CubeSats in different orbits by timing the dispensing of the CubeSats and also the attitude of the launch vehicle at dispensing time.
- azernik 9y agoI didn't say it couldn't be used with CubeSats; I said that it could require the customer to use a lot of propellant to change the orbit if they wanted a different trajectory than the main customer or than the rest of the cluster. That last option you mentioned could be helpful, but only for small orbit variations. If you want 10 cubesats in orbit with wildly different inclinations like many Earth Observation customers do, that's a bit inconvenient.
- planteen 9y agoYou can do quite a bit with timing on the launch vehicle. A delay of ~45 minutes in SSO is the opposite side of the planet. And do any of the Planet CubeSats even have propulsion? It looks like the Flock constellation deployed without it. http://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/flock-1.htm http://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/flock-1.htm
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- themodelplumber 9y agoThis is so cool. Is there any information on e.g. transponder frequencies, if available?
- tzakrajs 9y agoIs CubeSat like Open Compute for micro satellites?
- THE_PUN_STOPS 9y agoEssentially, yes. The CubeSat standard specifies dimensions, weight, and max stored energy so that satellite users can focus on their payload and hand off the end result to any launch provider without complicated integration/negotiation.
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- LeFanch 9y agoNice share, thanks!
- digi_owl 9y agoThis got me looking into something, and sure enough they have looked into doing something similar at Andøya in Norway.