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Article: CubeSat

Many of the aforementioned characteristics or properties of CubeSats such as structure, propulsion, material, computing and telecommunications, power, and any additional specific instruments or measurement devices pose challenges to the expansion of use of CubeSat technology beyond Earth’s orbit. These challenges have been increasingly under consideration of international organizations over the past decade, for example, proposed in 2012 by NASA and the Jet Propulsion Lab, the INSPIRE spacecraft is an initial attempt at a spacecraft designed to prove the operational abilities of deep space CubeSats. The launch date was expected to be 2014, but has yet to do so and the date is still listed by NASA as TBD.