PocketQubes, startup in Glasgow, United Kingdom, is committed to reducing people's costs, by providing "satellite kits", making space enthusiasts, high school students, and college students can easily develop a size, but functional satellite, And its cost or even less than 6,000 dollars may be due to the very small volume, its attention is also significantly less than well-known Cubesats.
Develop a cheap, practical satellite is far from being easy. A miniature satellite Tubesats developed by the entrepreneurial company, and the miniature satellite tubesats on the Kickstarter, when the third international space station replenishment task was performed, and it was taken to space as the secondary payload. However, due to a technical problem, the satellite did not deploy a successful deployment, although the price of cheap Tubesats satellite has an interesting concept, but so far, it has not seen its separate emission task.
However, more effective Cubesat has achieved greater success, but this satellite is not everyone can afford, launching a small 3U Cubesat satellite into a low earth synchronization track will cost about $ 300,000. Although the price has fallen sharply, it is still very expensive.
As its name suggests, Pocketqubes is a "pocket" cube satellite, according to official data, it is only 5 cm wide (1.97 inches) each side, which has 10 cm wide (3.94 inches) as comparison Cubesat. . Its volume and weight is only one-third of Cubesat, so the price of PocketQuBes is more cheap to the earth synchronous track.
Since Russia's DNEPR-1 Rockets successfully launched in November last year, 4 and DNEPR-1 rockets have been launched on the track. It also includes a cost of $ 50SAT satellite so far, this part is less than $ 250.
However, for those who lack expertise to develop their first satellites, even a very small satellite, it is destined to be extremely complex and expensive. So this entrepreneurial PocketQube is trying to fill the gap by introducing the "PocketQube Toolkit".
The kit includes a space aircraft framework, radio module, aircraft equipped with a computer and a programmable experimental satellite development board, where the development board can be used to test different electronic boards. In addition, the toolkit can also be docked with a third-party payload. This set of tools is only one starting price of $ 5999, which is mainly for high school students, college students and amateur enthusiasts.
If you don't meet the lowest-end kits, you can spend more money to buy a higher configuration kit, users can also choose to add additional components, such as antenna, posture measurement and control system (ADCS), even a group Additional solar panels. Some parts of this kit are developed by entrepreneurial companies, and some components are developed by third parties.
The volume makes smaller mean less power consumption and reduces the space occupied by payload. On the other hand, the technology can make you a developer of satellite.
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