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.

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 ...

It is based on the cube satellite (CubeSat) model used worldwide for low-Earth orbit space research. “The purpose of this student experiment is to demonstrate technology that hasn’t been done in such ...

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 ...

Smaller size, single purpose. Sending a satellite into space is nothing new, of course. The Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1 into Earth orbit back in 1957.Today, about 10,000 active satellites are ...

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 ...

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, ...

The Luna-H Map cubesat launched on board the Artemis 1 mission in November 2022, but failed to fire its engines shortly after its delayed liftoff. Skip to content Gizmodo ...

The orbit planned for the Gateway, as well as this newly-approved CubeSat mission, brings the spacecraft within 1,000 miles of the Moon before slinging it back out into space to a distance over ...

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 ...

A tiny satellite showed it can take high-res pics from space A satellite the size of a suitcase sent back these 2.5-meter resolution photos of the Earth’s surface.