Hey folks, nice to see this article hit the frontpage. I'm one of the co-founders at satsearch. We're working on building more content like this to open up the space industry to more people.<p>After some initial feedback, we're already working to expanding this article. We've also published articles on small satellite thrusters [1] and reaction wheels [2]. We'll be publishing one on ground-station-as-a-service soon.<p>Would love your feedback/input on what you'd like to see next.<p>[1] <a href="https://blog.satsearch.co/2019-07-10-cubesat-thrusters-an-overview-of-in-space-propulsion-products-for-small-satellites.html" rel="nofollow">https://blog.satsearch.co/2019-07-10-cubesat-thrusters-an-ov...</a><p>[2] <a href="https://blog.satsearch.co/2019-07-25-reaction-wheels-an-overview-of-attitude-control-systems-available-on-the-global-marketplace-for-space.html" rel="nofollow">https://blog.satsearch.co/2019-07-25-reaction-wheels-an-over...</a>
Really interesting wikipedia article on them too (the article borrows from it a bit).<p>This is really amusing to me:<p>> The Michigan Exploration Laboratory (MXL) suspects that the M-Cubed CubeSat, a joint project run by MXL and JPL, became magnetically conjoined to Explorer-1 Prime, a second CubeSat released at the same time, via strong onboard magnets used for passive attitude control, after deploying on October 28, 2011.[5] This is the first non-destructive latching of two satellites.[6]