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Welcome to the strange, rapidly evolving, and highly innovative world of small satellites. Throughout this book we will either spell out this phrase in full or sometimes refer to the objects as “smallsats.” Other phrases we will use include “cubesats,” “nanosats,” “picosats,” and even “femtosats.” The meaning of these descriptions that refer to different sizes of smallsats will be provided later.
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Madry, S., Martinez, P., Laufer, R. (2018). Introduction to the World of Small Satellites. In: Innovative Design, Manufacturing and Testing of Small Satellites. Springer Praxis Books(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-75094-1_1
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