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Team Miles

Team Miles is a science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Team Miles rather than just read about it. In short: Team Miles was a 6U CubeSat that was to demonstrate navigation in deep space using innovative plasma thrusters. It was also to test a software-defined radio operating in the S-band for communications from about 4 million kilometers from Earth.

Team Miles — main illustration
Team Miles — illustration

Key takeaways

  • Team Miles belongs to science; place it in that map before memorising details.
  • Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
  • Connect Team Miles to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
  • Reproduce the core statement of Team Miles from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Team Miles was a 6U CubeSat that was to demonstrate navigation in deep space using innovative plasma thrusters. It was also to test a software-defined radio operating in the S-band for communications from about 4 million kilometers from Earth. Team Miles was one of ten CubeSats launched with the Artemis 1 mission into a heliocentric orbit in cislunar space on the maiden flight of the Space Launch System (SLS), that took place on 16 November 2022. Team Miles was deployed but contact was not established with the spacecraft.

Overview

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. Since the Team Miles won the first place at CubeQuest Challenge for the selection process, Fluid and Reason, LLC struck partnerships and became Miles Space, a commercial endeavor to further develop the technology and intellectual property that has come out of the design process.

Propulsion Wesley Faler, who leads Fluid and Reason, LLC., is the inventor of the ion thruster to be used, which he calls ConstantQ Model H. It is a form of electric propulsion for spacecraft. The engine is a hybrid plasma and laser thruster that uses ionized iodine as propellant. The Model H system includes 4 thruster heads which are canted, allowing for both primary propulsion and attitude control (orientation) without the use of moving parts. The goal within the CubeQuest 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.

Radio The spacecraft will use the USRP B200mini, a software-defined radio operating in the S band for communications from about 4 million kilometers from Earth.

See also

The 10 CubeSats flying in the Artemis 1 mission Near-Earth Asteroid Scout by NASA was a solar sail spacecraft that was planned to encounter a near-Earth asteroid (mission failure) BioSentinel is an astrobiology mission LunIR by Lockheed Martin Space Lunar IceCube, by the Morehead State University CubeSat for Solar Particles (CuSP) Lunar Polar Hydrogen Mapper (LunaH-Map), designed by the Arizona State University EQUULEUS, submitted by JAXA and the University of Tokyo OMOTENASHI, submitted by JAXA, was a lunar lander (mission failure) ArgoMoon, designed by Argotec and coordinated by Italian Space Agency (ASI) Team Miles, by Fluid and Reason LLC, Tampa, Florida The 3 CubeSat missions removed from Artemis 1 Lunar Flashlight will map exposed water ice on the Moon Cislunar Explorers, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York Earth Escape Explorer (CU-E3), University of Colorado Boulder

References

Illustrations

Team Miles illustration

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Team Miles

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Team Miles claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Team Miles before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Team Miles ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Team Miles

In research
Team Miles appears in science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry
Engineering practice reuses Team Miles in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom
Team Miles is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 2022 in the United States, Artemis I secondary payloads, CubeSats, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life
Look for Team Miles outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Team Miles in 20 minutes

  1. Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
  2. Close the page and write down what Team Miles means in your own words.
  3. Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
  4. Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
  5. Explain Team Miles out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is Team Miles in simple terms?

Team Miles was a 6U CubeSat that was to demonstrate navigation in deep space using innovative plasma thrusters. It was also to test a software-defined radio operating in the S-band for communications from about 4 million kilometers from Earth.

Why does Team Miles matter?

Because it connects several science ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Team Miles?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Team Miles.

Tags

  • 2022 in the United States
  • Artemis I secondary payloads
  • CubeSats
  • Lunar flybys
  • Missions to the Moon
  • Satellites deployed during the Artemis program
  • Spacecraft launched in 2022

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