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by kd3
2396 days ago
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That is not what I am suggesting either. Smaller telescopes and cameras but on every satellite which can then be combined computationally as well. Tons of possibilities. Of course, like I said, they could also equip some of them with more powerful and larger hardware. But the smaller ones would already provide lots of capabilities for very little extra cost relatively. |
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Dedicated CubeSats have largely filled the smallsat niche. I would expect the Starlink mass has been carefully optimized already.
There are interesting mission concepts (telescope + star shade; NEO detection [1]) that are in the works with dedicated CubeSat constellations, but yoking them to another spacecraft bus with its own constraints doesn't sound likely to succeed.
[1] https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2017/07/aa29809-...