Within the next year, Cornell’s Alpha CubeSat student team plans to deploy a small spacecraft into low earth orbit. The CubeSat, which is only slightly larger than a softball, will hitch a ride on a ...

In 2021, NASA announced that the nonprofit educational organization, SilverSat, had been selected to join 14 other candidates to launch one of their CubeSats on NASA’s CubeSat Launch Initiative (CLI).

HONOLULU (KHON2) — A University of Hawaii at Manoa student group has been chosen as one of 10 small research satellite developers to launch their satellite into space as early as 2025 through NASA’s ...

The Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST) announces the launch of its CubeSat project LIST-SAT-01, the first Luxembourgish nanosatellite initiative with a scientific experiment ...

There was a time when you could find spacecraft clean rooms in two sizes – – big and bigger. After all, these harsh-white, sterile environments have to handle very large spacecraft, support equipment, ...

Eight U.S. universities have been selected to participate in NASA's 2024 Mission Concept program. Photo courtesy of NASA March 28 (UPI) --NASA and its military partners have selected teams from eight ...

Bob Twiggs was frustrated. His Stanford University graduate students started satellite-building projects but never finished them. The students came and went. Launch opportunities were lost. There was ...

The Danish flag will fly high on Monday when two small satellites, designed and built in Denmark, are released from the International Space Station. Their mission: the student-built AAUSay-5 and the ...

This is an introduction to the February 2024 Innovation article, “GNSS Timing Measurements from a Low-Earth Orbiting Satellite.” In 1999, professors Jordi Puig-Suari at California Polytechnic State ...

Suggested Citation: "3 CubeSats as a Tool for Education and Hands-on Training." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2016. Achieving Science with CubeSats: Thinking Inside the ...

Across Africa, a new generation of affordable CubeSats and NanoSats is enabling more nations to place locally designed satellites in ...