On 8/2/2019 1:21 PM, adam paul wrote:
Wireless as in inductive power? that would certainly be interesting. Might put some heavy restrictions on what what payloads cubesats could contain, and could affect magnetorquers substantiallyWell, I was thinking strictly in terms of a "zero force" connector between the launcher and the payload. The particular "connector" I saw demo'd had the "receiver" completely passivated once the "transmitter" was more than ~20mm distant. So the connector would become a complete non-issue (aside from parasitic weight) as soon as the payload separated.