{"id":59830,"date":"2020-04-29T21:07:10","date_gmt":"2020-04-29T13:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/nanoavionics-to-build-satellite-bus-for-nasas-solar-sail-mission\/"},"modified":"2020-04-29T21:07:10","modified_gmt":"2020-04-29T13:07:10","slug":"nanoavionics-to-build-satellite-bus-for-nasas-solar-sail-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/nanoavionics-to-build-satellite-bus-for-nasas-solar-sail-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"NanoAvionics\u00a0to Build Satellite Bus for NASA\u2019s Solar Sail Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>NanoAvionics<\/strong> will build a 12U nanosatellite bus for an in-orbit demonstration of NASA\u2019s Advanced Composite Solar Sail System (ACS3), the company announced Wednesday. This a result of a contract between NASA Ames Research Center and <strong>AST<\/strong> for a 12U bus to carry NASA\u2019s payload into Low-Earth Orbit (LEO), including a composite boom and solar sail system.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The ACS3 mission aims to replace conventional rocket propellants by developing and testing solar sails using sunlight beams to thrust the nanosatellite. These solar sail propulsion systems are designed for future small interplanetary spacecrafts destined for low-cost deep-space and science missions requiring long-duration, low-thrust propulsion.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>NanoAvionics will assemble the 12U bus at its new facility in Columbia, Illinois, while the final integration of the payload will be carried out at NASA Ames facilities. The company will also supply a mechanical testbed model and a FlatSat model, and NanoAvionics engineers will support testing, integration and operations for the nanosatellite.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m tremendously proud and excited that NanoAvionics will be part of NASA\u2019s effort to validate a new beam-powered propulsion system, eventually leading to more marvellous deep-space missions following the first inter-planetary cubesats MarCO-A and B (Mars Cube One),\u201d said F. Brent Abbott, CEO of NanoAvionics North America. \u201cThe technology demonstration using NanoAvionics\u2019 12U bus will be the first ever in-orbit trial of NASA\u2019s composite booms as well as sail packing and deployment systems for a solar sail. It will guide the development of a next generation nanosatellites with solar sail propulsion system for small inter-planetary spacecraft.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NanoAvionics will build a 12U nanosatellite bus for an in-orbit demonstration of NASA\u2019s Advanced Composite Solar Sail System (ACS3), the company announced Wednesday. This a result of a contract between NASA Ames Research Center and AST for a 12U bus to carry NASA\u2019s payload into Low-Earth Orbit (LEO), including a composite boom and solar sail [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59831,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59830"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}