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Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Today's Technology in Space Exploration

Today's technology is moving from large scale systems to miniaturized systems. Quite interesting how the size of spacecrafts can be reduced greatly and still able to carry out the functions desired. The example shown below isa Swedish microsatellite called NanoSpace-1.


NanoSpace-1
Ref : http://www.aim.uu.se/Satellites/nanospace.html
This nanosatellite, based on very advanced implementation of multifunctional Micro/Nano Technology MNT. Its main objective is to validate this new breed of spacecraft implemented on a modular platform composed of functional microsystem modules or subsystems.

It is composed mainly of:
  • Wave Vector Receive
  • Density Probe
  • Magnetometer
  • Antennas & Booms
  • Controller Area Network

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