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{{Short description|US experimental communications and plasma propulsion spacecraft}}
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| mission_type      = [[Engineering:Technology demonstration|Technology demonstration]]
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| website           = {{url|https://team.miles-space.com/}}
| mission_duration  = {{time interval|16 November 2022}} (in orbit)

| spacecraft        = Team Miles
| spacecraft_type   = [[Engineering:CubeSat|CubeSat]] 
| spacecraft_bus    = [[Engineering:CubeSat|6U CubeSat]] 
| manufacturer      = Fluid and Reason, LLC.
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| dimensions        = 10 cm × 20 cm × 30 cm
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| launch_date       = 16 November 2022, 06:47:44 UTC<ref name="reuters 1">{{Cite news |last1=Roulette |first1=Joey |last2=Gorman |first2=Steve |date=2022-11-16 |title=NASA's next-generation Artemis mission heads to moon on debut test flight |language=en |work=Reuters |url=https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/science/nasas-artemis-moon-rocket-begins-fueling-debut-launch-2022-11-15/ |access-date=2022-11-16}}</ref>
| launch_rocket     = [[Astronomy:Space Launch System|SLS Block 1]]
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'''''Team Miles''''' was a 6U [[Engineering:CubeSat|CubeSat]] that was to demonstrate navigation in [[Astronomy:Outer space|deep space]] using innovative [[Physics:Plasma propulsion engine|plasma thrusters]]. It was also to test a [[Software-defined radio|software-defined radio]] operating in the [[Astronomy:S band|S-band]] for communications from about 4 million kilometers from [[Astronomy:Earth|Earth]]. ''Team Miles'' was one of ten CubeSats launched with the [[Engineering:Artemis 1|Artemis 1]] mission into a [[Astronomy:Heliocentric orbit|heliocentric orbit]] in cislunar space on the maiden flight of the [[Astronomy:Space Launch System|Space Launch System]] (SLS), that took place on 16 November 2022.<ref name="reuters 1"/><ref>{{cite web |last=Clark |first=Stephen |url=https://spaceflightnow.com/2021/10/12/adapter-structure-with-10-cubesats-installed-on-top-of-artemis-moon-rocket/ |title=Adapter structure with 10 CubeSats installed on top of Artemis moon rocket |work=Spaceflight Now |date=12 October 2021 |access-date=22 October 2021}}</ref> Team Miles was deployed but contact was not established with the spacecraft.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/display.action?id=TEAMMILES |title=Team Miles |work=NASA Space Science Coordinated Archive |access-date=5 July 2023}}</ref>

== Overview ==
{| class="wikitable floatright"
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! Parameter !! Units/performance
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| Thrust || 5 mN
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| [[Physics:Specific impulse|Specific impulse]] (I<sub>sp</sub>) || 760 seconds
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| Impulse || 7456 N seconds
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| Power || 22 [[Watt|watts]]
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| Wet mass || 1.5 kg
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| Propellant mass || 1 kg
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| Propellant || [[Chemistry:Iodine|Solid iodine]]
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| Thrust:Mass  || 3.3 mN/kg
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| Impulse:Power || 338 N seconds/watt
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| Delta-V 12 kg craft || 649 m/s
|}

The spacecraft, a 6-Unit CubeSat — measuring 10 cm × 20 cm × 30 cm — was designed and is being developed by a non-profit group of fifteen citizen scientists and engineers ('''Fluid and Reason, LLC''') based at Tampa, Florida.<ref name="SpaceD 2017">{{cite web|url=https://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Cube_Quest_Challenge_Spotlight_Team_Miles_999.html|title=Cube Quest Challenge Spotlight: Team Miles|publisher=Space Daily|date=19 May 2017|access-date=10 March 2021}}</ref><ref name="Harbaugh 2017">{{cite web|url=https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/centennial_challenges/cubequest/team_miles|title=Cube Quest Challenge Spotlight: Team Miles|author=Jennifer Harbaugh|publisher=NASA|date=18 May 2017|access-date=10 March 2021}} {{PD-notice}}</ref><ref name="Cook">{{cite web|url=https://www.tampabay.com/news/humaninterest/self-taught-tampa-team-poised-to-send-winning-satellite-into-deep-space/2322213|title=The Miles CubeSat Might Be the Next Satellite Sent to Mars|author=Jeremy S. Cook|newspaper=Tampa Bay Times|date=30 August 2017 |access-date=10 March 2021}}</ref> Since the ''Team Miles'' won the first place at CubeQuest Challenge for the selection process,<ref name="AIAA">{{cite book|chapter-url=https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/pdf/10.2514/6.2017-5159 |chapter=Centennial Challenges Program Overview: How NASA Successfully Involves the General Public in the Solving of Current Technology Gaps|publisher=AIAA Space and Astronautics Forum and Exposition |location=Orlando, Florida|date=12-14 September 2017|doi=10.2514/6.2017-5159 |access-date=10 March 2021|title=AIAA SPACE and Astronautics Forum and Exposition |last1=Roman |first1=Monsi C. |last2=Kim |first2=Tony |last3=Sudnik |first3=Janet |last4=Cylar |first4=Rosalind |last5=Porter |first5=Molly |last6=Sivak |first6=Amy |last7=Cavanaugh |first7=Dominique |last8=Krome |first8=Kim |hdl=2060/20170011238 |isbn=978-1-62410-483-1 }}</ref> Fluid and Reason, LLC stroke partnerships and became Miles Space, a commercial endeavor to further develop the technology and intellectual property that has come out of the design process.<ref name="SpaceD 2017"/>

== Propulsion ==
Wesley Faler, who leads Fluid and Reason, LLC., is the inventor of the [[Engineering:Ion thruster|ion thruster]] to be used, which he calls ConstantQ Model H.<ref name="Model H">{{cite web|url=https://fluidandreason.com/constantq/ |title=ConstantQ Spacecraft Propulsion|publisher=Fluid and Reason, LLC.|date=2017|access-date=10 March 2021}}</ref><ref name="SpaceD 2017"/> It is a form of [[Engineering:Electrically powered spacecraft propulsion|electric propulsion]] for spacecraft. The engine is a hybrid plasma and laser thruster that uses ionized [[Chemistry:Iodine|iodine]] as propellant.<ref name="FOX">{{cite web|url=https://www.fox13news.com/news/local-news/tampa-team-in-new-space-race|title=Tampa team enters new Space Race with cube satellite|author=Lloyd Sowers|publisher=FOX13 Tampa Bay|date=12 May 2017|access-date=10 March 2021}}</ref><ref name="Cook"/> The Model H system includes 4 thruster heads which are canted, allowing for both primary propulsion and [[Astronomy:Spacecraft attitude control|attitude control]] (orientation) without the use of moving parts.<ref name="Model H"/><ref name="Miles Space">{{cite web |url=https://miles-space.com/thruster/|title=ConstantQ™ Thruster|publisher=Miles Space|date=2017|access-date=10 March 2021}}</ref> The goal within the CubeQest Challenge is to travel 4 million kilometers, but the team will attempt to go as far as 96 million kilometers before the end of the mission.<ref name="SpaceD 2017"/>

== Radio ==
The spacecraft will use the [[Universal Software Radio Peripheral|USRP B200mini]], a [[Software-defined radio|software-defined radio]] operating in the [[Astronomy:S band|S band]] for communications from about 4 million kilometers from Earth.<ref name="Smallsats">{{cite web|url=https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4222&context=smallsat|title=Investigation into New Ground Based Communications Service Offerings in Response to SmallSat Trends|author=Scott Schaire|publisher=32nd Annual AIAA/USU Conference on Small Satellites Document SSC18-SI-07|date=2018|access-date=10 March 2021}}</ref>

== See also ==

;The 10 [[Engineering:CubeSat|CubeSat]]s flying in the [[Engineering:Artemis 1|Artemis 1]] mission
* [[Astronomy:Near-Earth Asteroid Scout|Near-Earth Asteroid Scout]] by [[Organization:NASA|NASA]] was a [[Physics:Solar sail|solar sail]] spacecraft that was planned to encounter a [[Astronomy:Near-Earth object|near-Earth asteroid]] (mission failure)
* [[Astronomy:BioSentinel|BioSentinel]] is an [[Astronomy:Astrobiology|astrobiology]] mission
* [[Astronomy:LunIR|LunIR]] by [[Company:Lockheed Martin Space|Lockheed Martin Space]]
* [[Astronomy:Lunar IceCube|Lunar IceCube]], by the [[Organization:Morehead State University|Morehead State University]]
* [[Astronomy:CubeSat for Solar Particles|CubeSat for Solar Particles]] (CuSP)
* [[Astronomy:Lunar Polar Hydrogen Mapper|Lunar Polar Hydrogen Mapper]] (LunaH-Map), designed by the [[Organization:Arizona State University|Arizona State University]]
* [[Astronomy:EQUULEUS|EQUULEUS]], submitted by [[Organization:JAXA|JAXA]] and the University of Tokyo
* [[Astronomy:OMOTENASHI|OMOTENASHI]], submitted by JAXA, was a lunar lander (mission failure)
* [[Astronomy:ArgoMoon|ArgoMoon]], designed by Argotec and coordinated by [[Organization:Italian Space Agency|Italian Space Agency]] (ASI)
* Team Miles, by Fluid and Reason LLC, Tampa, Florida

;The 3 CubeSat missions removed from Artemis 1
* [[Astronomy:Lunar Flashlight|Lunar Flashlight]] will map exposed water ice on the [[Astronomy:Moon|Moon]]
* [[Astronomy:Cislunar Explorers|Cislunar Explorers]], [[Organization:Cornell University|Cornell University]], Ithaca, New York
* [[Astronomy:Earth Escape Explorer|Earth Escape Explorer]] (CU-E<sup>3</sup>), [[Organization:University of Colorado Boulder|University of Colorado Boulder]]

== References ==
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