NASA’s CURIE Mission To Unravel the Sun’s Cryptic Radio Riddles
NASA’s CURIE mission will explore the origins of solar radio waves using a unique space-based radio interferometry method. By flying two CubeSats that will orbit…
CubeSat News
CubeSats are miniature satellites that have standardized dimensions of multiples of 10×10×10 centimeters, known as “U” units, and typically weigh no more than 1.33 kilograms per unit. They are widely used in space research for their low cost and the ease with which they can be deployed. Originally developed in 1999 by California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly) and Stanford University for educational purposes, CubeSats have become popular in the space industry, enabling academic, private, and government projects to gain access to space at a reduced cost. These small satellites are used for a variety of tasks such as Earth observation, scientific experimentation, and new technology demonstration. CubeSats are usually deployed into orbit from launch vehicles or the International Space Station (ISS) using a specialized deployment mechanism.
The Summer of Satellites Begins With a Spectacular Night Launch
On July 3, Firefly Aerospace launched eight satellites under NASA’s CubeSat Launch Initiative from Vandenberg Air Force Base. As part of NASA’s CubeSat Launch Initiative,…
NASA Selects 10 New CubeSat Missions To Fly to the International Space Station
NASA’s CubeSat initiative supports 10 new missions, promoting educational and technological advancement through modular satellites. These include diverse projects from universities and a K-12 school,…
NASA’s Tiny BurstCube Satellite Launched To Study Powerful Cosmic Explosions
NASA’s BurstCube, a shoebox-sized satellite, has been launched to the International Space Station as part of SpaceX’s 30th Commercial Resupply Services mission to study powerful…
Unveiling Cosmic Secrets and Earth’s Mysteries With NASA’s Latest CubeSat Fleet
NASA’s CubeSat Launch Initiative (CSLI) is sending four CubeSats to the International Space Station to advance space-based technologies in solar power, gamma-ray burst detection, and…
NASA Announces Latest Candidates for CubeSat Space Missions
NASA has selected eight small research satellites from seven states to fly as either auxiliary payloads or deployments from the International Space Station (ISS). These…
Exploring the Moon: CAPSTONE’s CubeSat Prepares for Lunar Flight
Small spacecraft will play a big role in lunar exploration, including a Moon-bound CubeSat launching later this year. The Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and…
NASA Lost Contact With Spacecraft Designed to Study Planets Outside Our Solar System
Mission operators at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, have lost contact with the ASTERIA satellite, a briefcase-sized spacecraft designed to study planets outside…
Rocket Lab’s Electron Rocket Sends Series of New CubeSats to Space
A series of new CubeSats now are in space, conducting a variety of scientific investigations and technology demonstrations, following the launch Sunday of Rocket Lab’s…
NASA CubeSat Captures Its First Image of Mars
NASA’s MarCO mission was designed to find out if briefcase-sized spacecraft called CubeSats could survive the journey to deep space. Now, MarCO – which stands…
First Image Captured by One of NASA’s Mars Cube One CubeSats
NASA’s Voyager 1 took a classic portrait of Earth from several billion miles away in 1990. Now a class of tiny, boxy spacecraft, known as…
CubeSat Captures First Global Picture of Small Frozen Particles Inside Clouds
Looking at Earth from the International Space Station, astronauts see big, white clouds spreading across the planet. They cannot distinguish a gray rain cloud from…
NASA CubeSat Mission Receives Funding to Solve Venusian Mystery
NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center has received funding to advance a CubeSat mission concept revealing the nature of the mysterious ultraviolet absorber in the uppermost…
Nanosatellites Provide New Opportunities for Space Science
Miniaturized satellites, known as nanosatellites or CubeSats, are small platforms that enable the next generation of scientists and engineers to complete all phases of a…