{"id":31369,"date":"2016-10-25T08:46:43","date_gmt":"2016-10-25T15:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/cubesats-could-soon-be-zooming-around-space-under-their-own-power"},"modified":"2017-04-24T19:26:18","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T02:26:18","slug":"cubesats-could-soon-be-zooming-around-space-under-their-own-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/cubesats-could-soon-be-zooming-around-space-under-their-own-power","title":{"rendered":"CubeSats could soon be zooming around space under their own power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VeSdGMi7md4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Rubik\u2019s-cube-sized CubeSats are a nifty, cheap way for scientists to put a research vessel into space, but they\u2019re limited to orbiting where they\u2019re launched \u2013 until now. Los Alamos researchers have created and tested a safe and innovative rocket motor concept that could soon see CubeSats zooming around space and even steering themselves back to Earth when they\u2019re finished their mission.<\/p>\n<p>Consisting of modules measuring 10 \u00d7 10 \u00d7 11.35 cm (3.9 \u00d7 3.9 \u00d7 4.5 in), these mini-satellites first launched in 2003, but are currently lacking in propulsion because they\u2019re designed to hitch a ride into space with larger, more expensive space missions. They\u2019re usually deployed along with routine pressurized cargo launches, usually into low orbits that limit the kinds of studies that CubeSats can perform.<\/p>\n<p>This limitation is, of course, frustrating for space researchers. In fact, the National Academy of Science recently identified propulsion as one of the main areas of technology that needs to be developed for CubeSats.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/newatlas.com\/new-cubesat-propulsion-rocket-motor\/46019\/\">http:\/\/newatlas.com\/new-cubesat-propulsion-rocket-motor\/46019\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rubik\u2019s-cube-sized CubeSats are a nifty, cheap way for scientists to put a research vessel into space, but they\u2019re limited to orbiting where they\u2019re launched \u2013 until now. Los Alamos researchers have created and tested a safe and innovative rocket motor concept that could soon see CubeSats zooming around space and even steering themselves back to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31369"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38816,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31369\/revisions\/38816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}