The goal of LightSail 2 is to demonstrate that solar sails can be used to propel small satellites called CubeSats.

" 光帆2号" 的目标是证明太阳帆可用于推进 " 立方体卫星" 等小型卫星。

NASA offers to launch CubeSats free of charge for educational and research purposes.

6. NASA 提出免费发射立方体卫星用于教育和研究目的。

CubeSats are designed to tag along as passengers on the launches of bigger spacecraft.

立方体卫星的设计目的是作为乘客跟随更大的航天器的发射。

While making significant contributions to space science, CubeSats may pose hazards to other space vehicles.

8. 在对空间科学做出重大贡献的同时，立方体卫星可能对其他空间飞行器造成危害。

Even school pupils can have their CubeSats put in orbit owing to the lowered launching cost.

4. 由于发射成本降低，即使是小学生也可以将立方体卫星送入轨道。

Yet it also acknowledges that widespread deployment of LEO CubeSats isn't risk-free.

然而，它也承认广泛部署 LEO CubeSats 并非没有风险。

Arya notes that the idea behind the special antenna's design is to pack it into very small satellites that are known as CubeSats.

阿里亚表示，这种特殊天线的设计初衷是将其装入很小的卫星中，这种微型卫星名为返回计算集。

Called CubeSats, these nanosatellites are roughly 10 by 10 by 10 centimeter cubes that tend to weight a little over a kilogram.

这些纳米卫星被称为立方体卫星，大约是10×10×10厘米的立方体，重量往往超过一公斤。

But they can attain more distant orbits; NASA plans for most of its future Earth-escaping payloads (to the moon and Mars especially) to carry CubeSats.

但是它们可以到达更远的轨道；美国国家航空航天局计划其未来大部分逃离地球的有效载荷（尤其是月球和火星）携带立方体卫星。

As the report authors point out, even near-misses might lead to the " creation of a burdensome regulatory framework and affect the future disposition of science CubeSats" .

正如报告作者指出的那样， 即使有惊无险也可能导致“建立繁重的监管框架并影响科学立方体卫星的未来部署” 。

M)This is where a culture of social responsibility around CubeSats becomes important-not simply to ensure that physical risks are minimized, but to engage with a much larger community in anticipating and managing less obvious consequences of the technology.

M) 这就是围绕 CubeSats 的社会责任文化变得重要的地方——不仅仅是为了确保物理风险最小化，而是让更大的社区参与预测和管理该技术不太明显的后果。