NASA’s Small Spacecraft Methods Digital Institute (S3VI) is happy to announce the official launch of the extremely anticipated 2024 State-of-the-Artwork Small Spacecraft Expertise report. This vital accomplishment was made attainable by the contributions of quite a few devoted folks throughout NASA who graciously supported the preparation of the doc as authors and reviewers. We additionally wish to lengthen our gratitude to all the businesses, universities, and organizations that supplied content material for this report.
The 2024 report will be discovered on-line at https://www.nasa.gov/smallsat-institute/sst-soa. The report can be obtainable in PDF format as a single doc containing all report content material in addition to particular person chapters obtainable on their respective chapter webpages. This 2024 version displays updates in a number of chapters to incorporate: the Formation Flying and Rendezvous and Proximity Operations part inside the “Steerage, Navigation, and Management” chapter; the Additive Manufacturing part inside the “Constructions, Supplies, and Mechanisms” chapter; the Free House Optical Communications part inside the “Communications” chapter; and the Hosted Orbital Providers part inside the “Full Spacecraft Platforms” chapter.
As in earlier editions, the report incorporates a basic overview of present state-of-the-art SmallSat applied sciences and their improvement standing as mentioned in open literature. The report isn’t supposed to be an exhaustive illustration of all applied sciences presently obtainable to the small spacecraft neighborhood, nor does the inclusion of applied sciences within the report function an endorsement by NASA. Sources of publicly obtainable date generally used as sources within the improvement of the report embrace producer datasheets, press releases, convention papers, journal papers, public filings with authorities businesses, and information articles. Readers are extremely inspired to achieve out to corporations for additional info concerning the efficiency and maturity of described applied sciences of curiosity. Throughout the report’s improvement, corporations had been inspired to launch check info and flight knowledge when attainable so it might be appropriately captured. It ought to be famous that expertise maturity designations might range with change to payload, mission necessities, reliability concerns, and the related check/flight setting wherein efficiency was demonstrated.
Solutions or corrections to the 2024 report towards a subsequent version, ought to be submitted to the NASA Small Spacecraft Methods Digital Institute Company-SmallSat-Institute@mail.nasa.gov for consideration previous to the publication of the longer term version. When submitting strategies or corrections, please cite acceptable publicly accessible references. Personal correspondence isn’t thought-about an sufficient reference. Efforts are underway for the 2025 report and organizations are invited to submit applied sciences for consideration for inclusion by August 1, 2025.
NASA’s Small Spacecraft Expertise program inside the House Expertise Mission Directorate funds the Small Spacecraft Methods Digital Institute.
