How to Use microsatellite in a Sentence

microsatellite

noun

• The chip at the core of the Sprite microsatellite is smaller than a dime.
  — Veronique Greenwood, Discover Magazine, 29 Apr. 2011
• The Army has an imaging microsatellite on board for release this fall from the station.
  — Washington Post, 14 Aug. 2017
• The microsatellite, Claire, had been flying since 2016.
  — Jason McKeever, IEEE Spectrum, 27 Oct. 2020
• While Zhuque didn't put the microsatellite into orbit, the Chinese start-up said the launch wasn't a total failure.
  — Chelsea Gohd, Discover Magazine, 29 Oct. 2018
• The European Space Agency microsatellite Proba-2 took this great shot from space!
  — Discover Magazine, 20 May 2012
• Like fingerprints, each tree has a unique pattern of these microsatellites.
  — Lyndsie Bourgon, Smithsonian, 22 May 2017
• The Chinese start-up LandSpace launched a three-stage rocket from the Jiuquan space center, but the mission failed to get its payload, a microsatellite, into orbit.
  — Chelsea Gohd, Discover Magazine, 29 Oct. 2018
• The microsatellites will be capable of launching on other small satellite rockets as well.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 23 Aug. 2017
• The mission's primary customer was a 100kg microsatellite for Capella Space.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 11 Sep. 2020
• To test it, the zoo keepers compared the DNA of the mother and her daughter, and analyzed the genetic material in 14 places along their genetic codes, or microsatellites.
  — Ryan W. Miller, USA TODAY, 7 June 2019
• The company’s success hinges on the expected growth in the small satellite market — and within that, an even more specialized subset of tiny spacecraft known as microsatellites.
  — Samantha Masunaga, latimes.com, 4 Aug. 2017
• Vector’s business plan calls for hauling hundreds of customers’ microsatellites into low-Earth orbit.
  — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 8 Nov. 2018
• If Archinaut is as successful as Made In Space hopes, the future may be filled not with swarms of small cubesats and microsatellites as many predict, but rather with big, powerful, multipurpose satellites built entirely in space.
  — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 16 May 2017
• To create the artificial shooting stars, Ale will launch a microsatellite into orbit early next year, approximately 310 miles above Earth.
  — Sandy Ong, Newsweek, 2 Apr. 2017
• The country is developing a smaller rocket for microsatellites that will be launched from Alcantara next year, boosted by engines developed by the German Aerospace Center.
  — Anthony Boadle, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Mar. 2018
• Not to mention that there has long been criticism of the impact that constellations of microsatellites—like those involved in SpaceX’s Starlink project—can have on astronomical observation.
  — Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 9 Mar. 2023
• Since the cost of launching a microsatellite is much lower than conventional satellites, the technology is allowing smaller companies and even regional governments to have eyes in the sky.
  — Forbes, 18 Mar. 2021
• In addition, the Dragon will carry a microsatellite that's part of the Kestrel Eye investigation, which could lower the cost of Earth imagery involved with tracking severe weather and detecting natural disasters.
  — Rebecca Dolan, Esquire, 14 Aug. 2017
• The small optical satellite, built by Adcole Maryland Aerospace, is designed to test the viability of using microsatellites to supply critical information to combat commanders on the ground in near real time.
  — Jay Bennett, Popular Mechanics, 14 Aug. 2017
• It is expected to deploy two payloads directly into orbit including a microsatellite.
  — Lee Roop | [e-mail], al, 1 Nov. 2022
• The TacSat-4 (or tactical microsatellite) lets the hundreds of thousands of military handheld radios currently in use communicate directly with an antenna orbiting in the most convenient spot imaginable: all that space overhead.
  — Jeremy A. Kaplan, Fox News, 27 Sep. 2011
• Similar manufacturing advances also diffuse military power—through ubiquitous sensors, inexpensive and autonomous drones, high-powered nanoexplosives, and less costly access to space through microsatellites.
  — George P. Shultz, WSJ, 27 June 2018

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