During the Artemis I mission, NASA’s Orion Spacecraft and NASA's Space Launch System will carry technology demonstrations and solar system science payloads into space. NASA Centennial Challenges' Cube Quest Challenge competitor Team Miles' CubeSat will be among the secondary payloads housed in the Orion stage adapter. When the tiny satellite is deployed, it will represent the first NASA challenge in space! Naveen Vetcha, challenge manager for Cube Quest, notes that this competition provided makers the chance to send their ideas into space, while also advancing tech for both future space missions and Earth applications. Team Miles, a Florida-based group of citizen scientists designed, built, and tested this small satellite that will demonstrate novel communications and propulsion technologies from deep space. Their 6U CubeSat features an array of 12 of their own ConstantQ plasma thrusters among other innovations the team developed for the competition. Team Miles is the first of two teams that will participate in this phase of the competition. The CubeQuest Challenge is still open to anyone who can build, test, launch, and fly a CubeSat in space within 365 days of Artemis I lifting off from the pad! Teams are competing for a total prize purse of $5 million. NASA’s Cube Quest Challenge is managed by Centennial Challenges, based at the agency’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. For more, please visit, https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spa....
