Small satellite bets on space station right now that's about to be defloyed. That's going to test a electro spray propulsion system on a cube satn. The smaller they are, especially some of the electro space systems, they can't really move you very far sometimes. Or if they can, it takes a long time.
How do satellites work? On this episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson and Chuck Nice explore CubeSats, space lasers, and the ecology of low Earth orbit with VP of Raytheon, Sandy Brown, and associate professor of aeronautics and astronautics, Kerri Cahoy.
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