smallsat การใช้

• In 2013, NanoRacks sought permission from NASA to develop their own hardware and CubeSat / SmallSat deployer to use over the JEM-Small Satellite Deployer.
• For that mission, LightSail will be enclosed within Prox-1, an autonomous rendezvous technology demonstration SmallSat that will fly aboard the first operational flight of SpaceX s Falcon Heavy rocket.
• In July 2012, Virgin Galactic announced LauncherOne, an orbital launch vehicle designed to launch " " smallsat " " primary Sierra Nevada Space Systems are developing satellite buses " optimized to the design of LauncherOne ".
• Don Quijote was one of six Near Earth Object precursor studies funded by ESA's General Studies Programme, other missions being : EUNEOS ( European NEO Survey ), Earthguard-I, NERO ( NEO Remote Observations ), SIMONE ( Smallsat Intercept Missions to Objects Near Earth ) and ISHTAR ( Internal Structure High-resolution Tomography by Asteroid Rendezvous ).
• ""'Cosmic Girl " "'is a Boeing 747-41R aircraft . A former passenger airplane operated by Virgin Atlantic, it was purchased by Virgin Galactic in 2015 to be used as the first stage launch platform ( or mothership ) for the air launch stage of the smallsat orbital launch vehicle LauncherOne, which has its first launch planned for 2017.