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When ESA's Juventas CubeSat lands on Dimorphos to assess the aftermath of last year's spectacular collisions with NASA's DART spacecraft, its GRASS instrument will directly measure the asteroid's gravitational pull, which is a millionth that of the Earth.
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A test version of ESA’s Proba-V Companion CubeSat seen during preparation for ‘thermal balance’ testing in the Agency’s Mechanical Systems Laboratory at its ESTEC technical centre in the Netherlands.
Space is a place where it is possible to be hot and cold at the same time, if one part of your satellite is in sunlight and another face in shade. A satellite’s interior needs to maintain a steady temperature to go on operating properly.
Accordingly this ‘structural and thermal model’ of the Proba-V Companion CubeSat was placed inside the Large Vacuum Facility of ESA’s Mechanical Systems Laboratory – employed to test large satellite systems or complete small satellites – for a week-long exposure to temperature extremes in space-quality vacuum.