Miniature satellites and things, what they can make
One of the methods to send the satellite to orbiter is to use a sling for giving speed for them. In this method, the satellite would be pulled behind the fast aircraft, and then the plane would start to flight by using a parabolic trajectory. When the aircraft starts to dive back to Earth, satellite, or small rocket like Pegasus, what is connected to the rope behind the aircraft would just continue the road to the law of the continuity of the movement orders. This is one of the most well-known methods of how to shoot miniature satellites to LEO (Low Earth Orbiter)(1).
If the satellite, what weight is 5kg, would be pulled back of small rocket plane that thing can give a very great ability to send the satellite, which is made by using integrated microchip technology. That kind of technology would give even small size very sophisticated mission profiles. The satellite can be installed in the tube below the rocket plane, and when it's on the top of the parabolic trajectory, release to the end of the rope. After that, the satellite would be released to the LEO or SOT (2)(Sub-Orbital Trajectory).
But this kind of thing would also work in the orbiter. Small size space shuttles like X-37B can start to pull the satellite behind it, and then it will start to dive and then the satellite could sling to the higher orbiter. This kind of thing would give more roles to the miniature shuttles, which are used in recon and another kind of missions, and the thing is that this action could be the last thing, what that shuttle makes at the orbiter before it would start it's landing process.
The thing is that the automatized space shuttle can also be equipped with the "whip" what is rotating by the electric motor, and that thing can send the miniaturized satellites to higher orbiters. Those satellites can be used to warn about the unusually high level of cosmic radiation.
Miniature satellites would be like the normal-size satellites. They can operate with a similar mission, and the thing is that the small-size telescope can act like some KH-15 satellite, but the targets for that telescope can be the other satellites. The image-recognition system can detect other satellites and then the CCD-camera of that telescope can turn to the target.
But the small size telescopes, what are sending data to the ground can be used also for recon missions, which are targeting other satellites. And that kind of system can operate also in normal peaceful missions, for following the condition of other satellites, and then that kind of data can help to make systems, what can follow the condition of the spacecraft even in the long-term space missions.
The required technology can be tested at the orbiter along with the normal satellites. In that kind of mission would be tested the artificial intelligence and cooperation between large satellites and sub-robots, what mission would support the missions to the edge of the solar system.
When we are thinking about the sophisticated automatized probes, what can send to the Kuiper belt sometimes in the future those probes might have sub-robots, which are fixing their cores if they are damaged. Those robots are controlled by sophisticated artificial intelligence, and they can even take samples like small stones to the laboratory of the probe.
(1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low_Earth_orbit
(2) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sub-orbital_spaceflight
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