There appears to be exponential growth in the number of micro-satellites being built, but because of the high cost of launch services, few of these micro-satellites are being launched. The only practical avenue open to get these smaller payloads launched is as secondary payloads. As is often the case with hitchhikers, they have a desired destination, but are usually dropped off short of that destination. SpaceDev is developing a family of small and inexpensive micro-kick motors, with a varying degree of capabilities, to help facilitate these small payloads getting to a satisfactory destination. The technology used is safe, simple and scalable.


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    Title :

    Elegantly simple orbital transfer vehicle


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    Small Payloads in Space ; 2000 ; San Diego,CA,United States


    Published in:

    Publication date :

    2000-11-07





    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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