Talk:CubeSat

Stub

Hey all. Are we really still just a stub, or is it time for us to take away that walking stick? Tuvas 20:13, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

Ion Thruster != Arcjet

The article says the University of Illinois cubesat employs "ion thrusters", but AFAICT, the linked site (i.e. http://cubesat.ece.uiuc.edu/ ) describes an arcjet system, which also has an article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcjet

They are not the same technology. I suppose the confusion is unsurprising considering that the satellite is called "ION" (but that's an acronym for "Illinois Observing Nanosatellite"). I imagine they would mention an actual ion thruster if they had one, as it is a more challenging technology than arcjets.

If the source above is the basis for the ion thruster claim, then it should be changed to read "arcjet" and link to that article instead.

68.93.224.4 07:44, 17 February 2007 (UTC)Terry Hancock

I should've caught this last year, but anyhow it's finally fixed. Dawnseeker2000 16:19, 7 November 2009 (UTC)

Clydespace

Are the references to clydespace really appropriate? To me they look added more like a commercial for the company rather than for any real reason. Is there a purpose to including them?

Clydespace

The reason for including Clyde-Space and other suppliers in this article as a reference is to broaden the readers knowledge of the ongoing development and education into Cubesats and their subsystems.

I agree - not only should we list Clydespace but several other providers such as Pumpkin and Gomspace. Are there specific rules against this? --Scasey1960 (talk) 03:18, 4 May 2010 (UTC)

We can discuss the companies that provide hardware and include secondary references (not Clydespace themselves). This would be a good improvement to the article; something more than a list of links. Here's the article before I started working on it. It was mostly a list of links. It was a lot of work to actually make prose out of all the possible sources, but I did it, and learned quite a bit in the process. Dawnseeker2000 03:40, 4 May 2010 (UTC)

PW-Sat

PW-Sat is the first polish satellite and it'll be launched on Vegas. PW-Sat is on the ESA's list of CubeSat: http://www.esa.int/esaED/SEM2BPUG3HF_index_0.html —Preceding unsigned comment added by Maciejurbanowicz (talk • contribs) 23:14, 5 December 2008 (UTC)

Excellent! I've already used the ESA page that you provided as a reference in the article. Thanks :D E_dog95' ^{Hi '} 23:28, 5 December 2008 (UTC)

I updated information about PW-Sat. I'll create an article about PW-Sat soon. --Maciejurbanowicz (talk) 10:29, 6 December 2008 (UTC)

MASAT

Hi! There is a Hungarian CubeSat project called MASAT-1:

http://cubesat.bme.hu/?lang=en
http://cubesat.bme.hu/?page_id=25&lang=en —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.144.175.229 (talk) 05:55, 19 October 2009 (UTC)

Naming

The Cal Poly naming conventions state that Cal Poly should be two words, and this is the only shortened version accepted by the University. The versions without the space should not be used, unlike at CalTech. I'll change it when I have a chance. Rico (talk) 17:12, 26 March 2010 (UTC)

Cubesats Enthusiasts' Discussion Forum

There is also a discussion forum http://cubesat.ifastnet.com/forum where anybody interested in picosatellites can ask or answer questions related to cubesats.