Leonard David's INSIDE OUTER SPACE

They are small…and they are impactful.

Since 2013, the fight heritage for small spacecraft has increased by over 30% and has become the primary source to space access for commercial, government, private, and academic institutions.

The overall capability of small spacecraft continues to mature, with technologies still being developed to make, for example, deep space SmallSat missions more routine and more cost effective.

NASA’s Small Spacecraft Systems Virtual Institute has issued the 2022 State-of-the-Art Small Spacecraft Technology report.

This informative, fact-filled report contains an overview of current state-of-the-art SmallSat technologies and their development status as discussed in open literature.

This report — State-of-the-Art Small Spacecraft Technology — comes from the Small Spacecraft Systems Virtual Institute at NASA’s Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California.

https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/2022_soa_full.pdf

Also, go to this website to review the work of the virtual institute at:

https://www.nasa.gov/smallsat-institute/small-spacecraft-body-of-knowledge