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
  • Like fingerprints, each tree has a unique pattern of these microsatellites.
    — Lyndsie Bourgon, Smithsonian, 22 May 2017
  • The Army has an imaging microsatellite on board for release this fall from the station.
    — Washington Post, 14 Aug. 2017
  • The microsatellites will be capable of launching on other small satellite rockets as well.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 23 Aug. 2017
  • 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
  • Vector’s business plan calls for hauling hundreds of customers’ microsatellites into low-Earth orbit.
    — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 8 Nov. 2018
  • The European Space Agency microsatellite Proba-2 took this great shot from space!
    — Discover Magazine, 20 May 2012
  • Despite such efforts, many observers still doubted the mission utility of microsatellites, Sweeting says.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 9 Nov. 2018
  • Short, repeating segments of DNA known as microsatellites were used to test the relatedness of the parents.
    — Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 12 Sep. 2023
  • The mission's primary customer was a 100kg microsatellite for Capella Space.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 11 Sep. 2020
  • Larger satellites were becoming more impressive, and microsatellites were seen as an unwelcome distraction.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 9 Nov. 2018
  • It is expected to deploy two payloads directly into orbit including a microsatellite.
    — Lee Roop | [email protected], al, 1 Nov. 2022
  • Measuring several microsatellites creates a DNA fingerprint that is rare, if not unique.
    — Amber Dance, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Oct. 2023
  • The problem is that microsatellites often give inaccurate estimates of which individuals are most and least related.
    — Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 12 Sep. 2023
  • The pair, the first microsatellites to support a deep space mission, are designed to relay data back to Earth this month when InSight reaches its destination.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 9 Nov. 2018
  • Claire, a microsatellite, was monitoring a mud volcano in Central Asia when a mysterious plume appeared in its peripheral view.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 14 Mar. 2023
  • 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
  • Every genome contains repetitive sequences called microsatellites that vary in length from individual to individual.
    — Amber Dance, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Oct. 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
  • His team will extract DNA from dogs in that family and (using the same strategy adopted by Rine) search for a microsatellite repeat tightly linked to the disease gene.
    — Rosie Mestel, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
  • The Global Low Orbit Message Relay microsatellite was the first developed under the program.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 9 Nov. 2018
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Argotec brings a pedigree of previous mission success to the state, having been involved with a microsatellite that flew along and captured images of the deep-space NASA mission DART that was used to impact an asteroid.
    — Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 8 Apr. 2026
  • In 2025, the progress continued with the Jinan-1 microsatellite establishing a 12,900-kilometer quantum link between China and South Africa, setting a new distance record.
    — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 10 Nov. 2025

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