Alta Devices: What:  Small satellites (SmallSats) are emerging as an important category of spacecraft worldwide. Developers want to take advantage of the low cost, ease of design and deployment, and flexibility of SmallSats, relative to other types of spacecraft. The prospect of leveraging space for applications as broad as communications, farming, and mining has spurred […]

Alta Devices: What:  Small satellites (SmallSats) are emerging as an important category of spacecraft worldwide. Developers want to take advantage of the low cost, ease of design and deployment, and flexibility of SmallSats, relative to other types of spacecraft. The prospect of leveraging space for applications as broad as communications, farming, and mining has spurred […]