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…
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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 launch Sunday of Rocket Lab’s first…
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…
