Tag: Asteroid Prospector
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6U CubeSat to Mars
We’ve been working on Asteroid Prospector, a 6U CubeSat to explore Near Earth Objects, for the past two years. It is quite a challenge to pack all the hardware into a 6U frame. Here is our latest design: The nadir face has both an Optical Navigation System camera and a JPL designed robot arm. The…
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Asteroid Prospector Orbiting Apophis
Asteroid Prospector is a 6U CubeSat designed to survey asteroids. It uses a Busek Ion engine to spiral out of earth orbit and rendezvous with an asteroid. It then uses its reaction control thruster system, which employ ECAPS green propellant thrusters, to perform near-asteroid operations. Here is a picture of the spacecraft in circular orbit…
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Visit to the Canadian Space Agency
I visited the Canadian Space Agency in St Hubert Canada on Tuesday, August 27 to give a talk on our Asteroid Prospector Spacecraft. The talk was fun and we had a great discussion on the challenges of near asteroid operations and building small interplanetary spacecraft. After the talk Dr. Alfred Ng gave us a tour…
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SmallSat Conference in the Cache Valley!
PSS attended the Small Satellite Conference in Logan, Utah, Aug 12-15. The conference site, on the campus of Utah State University, couldn’t have been more beautiful! View from the SmallSat venue, Logan Utah The technical program, conference organization, and venue were all outstanding! I bumped into several PSS MATLAB Toolbox customers and representatives from companies…