R5 CubeSats

From:https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20230011368/downloads/R5_Fact_Sheet_2023-07.pdf


The Realizing Rapid, Reduced-cost high-Risk Research project, or R5, is a series of
CubeSats that are intended to rapidly and affordably get technology prototypes into Low
Earth Orbit (LEO). By accelerating the on-orbit demonstration of technologies, engineers
and scientists will be able to more quickly prove them and make them available to NASA
missions and other users. In order to create spacecrafts fast and cheap
enough to hit project objectives, R5 is leaning heavily on commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) hardware and is developing processes to intelligently select and screen these
components for the space environment. R5 is also reducing cost and schedule by
substantially reducing the traditional process used to build spacecraft. As R5 develops
these new methodologies, the findings will be shared with the small spacecraft community
so that others can follow the successes and avoid r