Very very little, but not nothing. I've seen a few tiny deployable solar sails and a few tiny electric motors in my brief research for my video. They seem mostly experimental, to test out theories and miniaturization.
Enough to maintain your CubeSat's orbit and do a bit of pointing, but you'd need something bigger to have the propellant and power to get out of the solar system
I frequently wonder if alien didn't send RNA to Earth to start life here. It seems like that could be the payload for anyone shooting satellites out to the universe.
how much of a propulsion system could you feasibly pack in a cubesat?
Very very little, but not nothing. I've seen a few tiny deployable solar sails and a few tiny electric motors in my brief research for my video. They seem mostly experimental, to test out theories and miniaturization.
Enough to maintain your CubeSat's orbit and do a bit of pointing, but you'd need something bigger to have the propellant and power to get out of the solar system
I frequently wonder if alien didn't send RNA to Earth to start life here. It seems like that could be the payload for anyone shooting satellites out to the universe.