There was a time when building your own satellite and having it placed into orbit would have been a wild dream. Now it is extremely possible, but still not trivial. A CubeSat is a very small satell… ...

AVS US has launched two small satellites aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket to achieve the world’s first fully autonomous docking using just GPS.

CubeSat Launch Tests Satellite ... The flight also is being watched closely as a model for trying out new or off-the-shelf technologies quickly before putting them in the pipeline for use ...

In the dynamic realm of satellite technology, a seismic shift is underway, transforming the landscape from the dominance of CubeSats to the ascendancy of small satellites. As this evolution ...

The group formed the CubeSat team to create a 2U — or 20 centimeters x 10 centimeters x 10 centimeters — satellite, named the Bouchet Low Earth Alpha-Beta Space Telescope, or BLAST. After seven years ...

The NASA-funded CubeSat, called Microwave Radiometer Technology Acceleration (MiRaTA), will be launched into Earth’s orbit from the rocket carrying the next big U.S. weather satellite (NOAA’s ...

After a decade-long project, the Yale Undergraduate Aerospace Association, or YUAA, is gearing up to launch a satellite into outer space in the coming year. Through their CubeSat project, YUAA aims to ...

ESA invites European student teams who are building CubeSats with mainly educational objectives to propose their satellite for the new ‘Fly Your Satellite!’ programme.

A cereal box-size satellite, fueled by water power, is in the running for the first tiny satellite to orbit the moon. A Cornell University student team called the Cislunar Explorers is developing ...

NASA launched a tiny CubeSat in mid-2018 as a proof of concept to study weather on Earth. ... On July 13th, 2018, a much smaller satellite took to the skies. It was called RainCube, ...

SAN FRANCISCO – Qube, a German cubesat, is preparing to test quantum key generation and distribution via optical link. Mission operators in Germany made contact with the 3.53-kilogram Qube ...

Satellite built by elementary students to be deployed in space 04:16. Walk past the fiction aisles inside the library at St. Thomas More Cathedral School, and you'll find real-life drama inside ...