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…
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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…