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… ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.