Questions tagged [payload]

SOOS--Stacked Oscar On Scout--was what it was called when the 1985 decision was made to replenish the Operational (Oscar) Transit constellation with unflown first-production models. Early Oscars were flown one at a time on Scout rockets, but by the…

I read this week's XKCD and learned a fun new fact about the first contact with the moon. A replica of the ball that they mention in the comic is shown below: Gratis the wiki page on Luna 2. Source My question from this is: Since this event, have…

I was thinking of a spectrum analyzer as a radio pollution monitoring payload (for a CubeSat) that aims at making a global map of spectrum usage. My question is: Of which spectrum range can a CubeSat make a map from the LEO orbit? I heard about the…

I heard that a dosimeter could be used to detect cosmic ray particles and estimate the radiation dose received by the devices onboard. In this way, one can determine the average amount of ionising dose received at that specific orbit (in the…