French propulsion startup ThrustMe unexpectedly made it into orbit early this month with its innovative propulsion system placed aboard a Chinese cubesat.

Dianfeng, or Xiaoxiang-1 (08), a six-unit cubesat developed by privately owned Spacety, was a secondary payload on the launch of the Gaofen-7 civilian Earth observation satellite 2 November, along with a first satellite for Sudan.

Source: SpaceNews

Image credit: ThrustMe - one of the I2T5 cold gas thrusters it sent to orbit 2 November onboard a cubesat built by Spacety of China