The components and now Ffxiv Gil satellites made at Clyde Space, althoughrelatively cheap, are still informed by standards and procedures ofthe old space industry.
We place [circuit components] by hand and solder by hand usinga microscope, he says. All the solder joints need to beperfect.
That's partly because CubeSats still have much to prove: Wejust need to make sure the success rate of CubeSats is [high]because there's still people out there who don't believe thatCubeSats will be reliable enough to do anything useful.
It just so happens that it's a company based out of Glasgow,Scotland that's helping to prove the doubters wrong.
We place [circuit components] by hand and solder by hand usinga microscope, he says. All the solder joints need to beperfect.
That's partly because CubeSats still have much to prove: Wejust need to make sure the success rate of CubeSats is [high]because there's still people out there who don't believe thatCubeSats will be reliable enough to do anything useful.
It just so happens that it's a company based out of Glasgow,Scotland that's helping to prove the doubters wrong.
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