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A small fleet of CubeStats joins three mannequins, fungus, algae on Artemis-1
- jerrysievert 4y ago* CubeSats The article headline as it reads now is: > Here’s All the Science Hitching a Ride on Artemis-1 A small fleet of CubeStats joins three mannequins, fungus, algae, and more on a trip to the Moon and back The article itself correctly calls them CubeSats.
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- actionfromafar 4y agoMy brain did a segfault numerous times.
- topaz0 4y agoNote that "CubeStat" is likely a typo for "CubeSat", even though it does appear in the headline of the real article. "CubeStat" doesn't appear in the body of the article, and it is not a familiar term to me (as CubeSat is).
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- tiagod 4y agoIs there a list somewhere of each CubeSat and their payloads?
- mousetree 4y agoIt's pronounced CubeStat /s
- Kaibeezy 4y agoComment appears to be sarcasm, a form of humour /helpful ETA: /also s
- jerrysievert 4y agoYes, in the section “Artemis Science Payloads” - it has all 10, photos, mission objectives, and descriptions.
- cuSetanta 4y agoOne of the payloads that was meant to fly on Artemis-1 will be hitching a ride with my launch in a few days: https://spacenews.com/japanese-lunar-lander-with-nasa-rideshare-to-launch-this-month/ https://spacenews.com/japanese-lunar-lander-with-nasa-ridesh... We will get it to the Moon a bit slower than Artemis, but it will get there.
- krasin 4y agoGood luck with your launch and the mission. Is there a way for us to follow it?
- cuSetanta 4y agoispace as a company is not particularly good at publicising their work, which could be a cultural thing, as they are the only Japanese company I have worked for. But their LinkedIn will have updates as we apprach the launch (hopefully byt the end of this month): https://www.linkedin.com/company/ispace-inc https://www.linkedin.com/company/ispace-inc I will also be posting updates as things are happening on my LinkedIn, which is in my profile. Also, if you want to read more, these two blogs have a lot of cool information about our mission and the others involved in this "new space race": https://lunarbusinessreview.substack.com/ https://lunarbusinessreview.substack.com/ https://blog.jatan.space/ https://blog.jatan.space/
- krasin 4y agoThank you! And best of luck with the mission.
- gen3 4y agoHey, that's awesome! Do you know if there are plans to release the data publicly (or where I will find it when it does?)
- ops 4y ago(not the op, but I do have some insight here) At a minimum, CuSP data will be available via PySPEDAS: https://github.com/spedas/pyspedas https://github.com/spedas/pyspedas If you're interested in accessing science data from spacecraft, you should check it out!
- cwkoss 4y ago"mannequins" are really three human-shaped sensor packages
- JoeDaDude 4y agoI thought they were referring to Snoopy and Shawn the Sheep plushies, both of which were to be on Artemis-1 as zero G indicators. https://science.howstuffworks.com/snoopy-artemis.htm https://science.howstuffworks.com/snoopy-artemis.htm
- teh_klev 4y agoThis is reported in the article: "Moonikin Campos' job will be to pretend to be an astronaut, and sensors inside of him will measure radiation, acceleration and vibration to help NASA prepare to launch human astronauts in the next Artemis mission." "Accompanying Moonikin Campos are two other female-bodied mannequins, named Helga and Zohar, developed by the German Aerospace Center (DLR) along with the Israel Space Agency. These are more accurately called “anthropomorphic phantoms,” and their job is to provide a detailed recording of the radiation environment inside the capsule over the course of the mission. The phantoms are female because women have more radiation-sensitive tissue than men. Both Helga and Zohar have over 6,000 tiny radiation detectors placed throughout their artificial bodies, but Zohar will be wearing an AstroRad radiation protection vest to see how effective it is."
- rd 4y agoA cubesat from my high school is launching on Nov 21st, 2022 from the Kennedy Space Center on SpX-26 ISS resupply. I worked on it five years ago so it's really cool to see this stuff finally coming to fruition.
- cuSetanta 4y agoThats awesome, I am looking forward to watching the launch from the facility here in the Cape. I will cheer it on for you!
- ciucnru 4y ago
- lapetitejort 4y ago> The European Space Agency describes the ArgoMoon CubeSat as "a space version of the Lakitu the cloud camera turtle from Mario." Finally, third person view for spacecraft.
- kloch 4y agoWere these amateur/hobbyist cubesats or were they all proposed/sourced by NASA?
- halleym 4y agoI believe they were generally from colleges and schools and received development assistance from NASA. Each cubesat is a certain size, in the case of Artemis 1, they are "6U" or 6-units large. This seems to be a standard designation. The adapter ring that launches the cubesats is also interesting. Little chutes.
- pclmulqdq 4y agoThose are big cubesats! 3U used to be the normal size for a serious mission (eg I know of a space telescope that fit in 3U), while 1U is a few sensors or a toy project. I'm glad NASA is taking them up.
- MarkusWandel 4y agoI love this. It's great PR and it works on me. $10B's to basically replay moon missions from 50 years ago. Needs to be done to maintain spacefaring competency but, done that. But use like 0.01% of the payload hauling capacity if this thing to take up a bunch of cute cube sats just makes it all so much more interesting and fun to follow. I especially love the one that intends to land.
- phh 4y agoWhat are the order of magnitude of price launch for a cubesat nowadays?Are there already commercial prices for moon cubesats? What's the minimal equipment required (assuming just a simple communication sat)? Does it require attitude and vector control?
- dsign 4y agoNothing like some good news to start the day. Just for some fiction that I'm writing, how many people do you bet are living/working on the Moon by 2050?