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 ...

MAXWELL is a 6U CubeSat that is part of the Air Force Research Laboratory's University Nanosat Program 9. The team has won phase A of the competition which will provide the satellite with a launch to ...

the software that ran on the satellite and ground station, and all the captured telemetry from the flight. It’s the ultimate bootstrap for anyone else designing a CubeSat, and hopefully provides ...

The 12U cubesats known as Technology Demonstration ... Nearly 43 minutes after liftoff, the SBIRS GEO-5 satellite separated from the upper stage and deployed to a geosynchronous transfer orbit.