KLD5

Traditional ESA solar system spacecraft are several hundreds of kgs. However, we can now consider much smaller craft:

'small satellites': several tens of kgs

'cubesats': several kgs.

Components and payloads for smallsats and cubesats are increasingly available off-the-shelf, promising short mission development times, particularly in the near-earth space, and possibilities for multipoint measurements.
Can some of these advantages of smallsats and cubesats be translated to solar system scientific exploration missions?

Panellists:

- Ozgur Karatekin (Royal Observatory of Belgium, Brussels) - working on Belgian Hera/Juventas cubesat) and variety of entry probes

- Anamarija Stankov (ESA/ESTEC) - study payload engineer for Comet Interceptor

- Stavro Ivanovski (INAF, Rome) – working on Italian DART/LiciaCUBE cubesat, and a proposal for near-earth constellation of 6-8 cubesats to monitor spacecweather)