Bob, do you really mean a CubeSat or any picosat?
Recent CubeSat Spec changes have increase mass to 1.333kg/cube or 4kg for a triple cube which could play nicely into your plans to giving you more water to zap when in orbit.
http://cubesat.atl.calpoly.edu/media/CDS_rev12.pdf
You have indeed taken on a big challenge of not only the propulsion of a CubeSat but also stabilizing and orienting it for each burn.
Please keep us posted on developments.
73, Alan VE4YZ EN19kv AMSAT LM 2352 http://www.wincube.ca
-----Original Message----- From: amsat-bb-bounces@amsat.org [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces@amsat.org] On Behalf Of Greg D. Sent: August 25, 2009 10:45 PM To: bruninga@usna.edu Cc: amsat-bb@amsat.org Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: High LEO for cubesat?
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 12:11 PM, Robert Bruningabruninga@usna.edu
wrote:
For what it is worth, this semester I will finally get a student to work on the 40 year old AMSAT idea of a water rocket. (Carry water to orbit and use solar power to electrolizie the wate to H2 and O2 and then burn those in a thruster to raise the orbit of a cubesat.
Bob --