One rationale for miniaturizing satellites is to reduce the cost; heavier satellites require larger rockets with … See more

The nanosatellite and microsatellite segments of the satellite launch industry have been growing rapidly in recent years. Development activity in the 1–50 kg (2.2–110.2 lb) range has been significantly exceeding t… See more

The term "small satellite", or sometimes "minisatellite", often refers to an artificial satellite with a wet mass (including fuel) between 100 and 500 kg (220 and 1,100 lb), but in other usage has come to mean any satellit… See more

Small satellites usually require innovative propulsion, attitude control, communication and computation systems.
Larger satellites usually use monopropellants or bipropellant combustion systems fo… See more

Small satellites are difficult to track with ground-based radar, so it is difficult to predict if they will collide with other satellites or human-occupied spacecraft. The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has … See more

• Spaceflight portal
• Canadian Advanced Nanospace eXperiment Program
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• Nanosatellite and CubeSat Database
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