Microsatellites and minisatellites for affordable access to space
The University of Surrey embarked upon the design of its first experimental microsatcllite in 1978 and UoSAT-1 was launched by NASA in 1981-since then a further 13 low-cost yet highly sophisticated microsatellites have been built and launched into low earth orbit. The UoSAT missions have demonstrated that microsatellites can play a useful role in supporting specialised communications, earth observation, small-scale space science and in-orbit technology verification missions.
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