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NASA NTRS · 20190031730

Small Spacecraft Overview

Abstract

Small spacecraft play a major role in earth, lunar, planetary, stellar, and interstellar discoveries. As technologies improve, instruments scale down in size, and their advantages in reduced cost and development time continue to attract investment, small satellites1 will play an even more important role. Today, the growth rate of small spacecraft utilization is limited by the availability of affordable launch opportunities.

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Spremo, Stevan M., Crocker, Alan R., Panontin, Tina L.. 2017-05-15. Small Spacecraft Overview. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20190031730

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