Henry,
I've wondered why the 8U form factor hasn't been more popular? It would
satisfy the "closer to spherical" criteria. Is it just that 3U got more
popular than 2U and larger sizes got based on that?
Bob
On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 12:35 PM Henry Spencer <hspencer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
I think you'll see that changing. The 3U and 6U form factors are really
quite awkward for serious payloads, and their power and thermal situations
are a major headache because the amount of sunlit surface area varies so
much with orientation -- a form factor closer to spherical is a big
improvement. (We have flown 3U birds, but didn't like it.) In the past,
people who've outgrown 3U/6U have tended to just go custom, but I think
the emergence of 12U as a semi-standard will change that.
Henry