Will future spacecraft fit in our pockets? Learn about this small technology and how scientists are exploring our world.
Spark your math thinking!
- Set up your math mini spark recording page: #41: Future Spacecraft
- Watch this video, write about some of the calculation scientist must make for these tiny spacecraft to be created.
3. Think about the following: NASA provides opportunities for students, researchers and industry to launch their small satellite payloads on NASA’s own launches. What type of small satellite would you build and what type of data or experiment would you carry out if you could send a small satellite to space?
4. Read about Specific Impulse on this site. It’s some higher level math, but try to read through it and pick out at least one new thing you can write about on your recording page.
5. Read about SmallSats and CubeSats at NASA. Record some details on your recording sheet.
6. Share your math mini spark recording page with your teacher/EY coordinator.
Wait…is this a Math Spark or a Science Spark? Math and science are so intertwined that it’s hard to tell sometimes whether you’re doing one or the other. Many times it’s both!
Micro ships are a great idea and it makes me have a lot more ideas about collecting space samples maybe even with magnets.
I think it’s a great idea to have micro rockets because they can fit into smaller areas and make more at a cheaper cost. I think they should add tiny solar panels to it so it would be faster.
I think it’s a great idea to have tiny rockets because they can move more and have more space to move in. I think they should make them go really fast and be smaller so they miss space trash. Then it won’t be destroyed so easy and the smaller the target, the harder it is to hit.
NASA has a good idea when it comes to these mini rockets, but will the air pressure and non gravity part change how the rocket will be able to move? Otherwise, this is really cool.