Improving Access to Space through Satellite Standards

Developing a standard Launch Unit, or Launch-U, for mid-sized smallsats—approximately the size between a toaster and a small refrigerator—will result in more launch opportunities at a lower cost.

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December 19, 2017

Aerospace is driving the Launch-U conversation by assembling representatives from industry, academia, and government to set the mid-size smallsats standard.

Read about it in the Los Angeles Business Journal and Space.com

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