NASA demonstrated the first coordinated maneuver between two CubeSats in low-Earth orbit as part of NASA’s Optical Communications and Sensor Demonstration mission. The twin spacecraft, each... Read more
Spacecraft outfitted with sails and propelled by the sun are no longer the stuff of science fiction or theoretical space missions. Now, a Rochester Institute of Technology researcher is taki... Read more
Charged particles in Earth’s inner radiation belt created by cosmic rays born from supernova explosions A 60-year-old mystery about the source of energetic, potentially damaging particles in... Read more
A satellite propelled by the Earth’s most abundant natural resource? Yes, it’s true. Cislunar Explorers, a team of Cornell graduate and undergraduate students guided by Mason Peck, a former... Read more
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 spacecra... Read more
The Clean Space One Project has passed a milestone. The space cleanup satellite will deploy a conical net to capture the small SwissCube satellite before destroying it in the atmosphere. It’... Read more
By the end of September, NASA aerospace engineer Jason Budinoff is expected to complete the first imaging telescopes ever assembled almost exclusively from 3-D-manufactured components. “As f... Read more
Small satellites: Taking advantage of smartphones and other consumer technologies, tiny satellites are changing the space business ALTHOUGH widely used, satellites are expensive to build and... Read more
A private San Francisco start-up has launched the largest-ever ensemble of satellites The constellation of Earth-imaging satellites launched yesterday—28 individual sputniks, called “Doves,”... Read more
Design inflates with a powder that turns into gas. The future of satellite technology is getting small — about the size of a shoebox, to be exact. These so-called “CubeSats,” and other small... Read more
NASA has selected 24 small satellites, including three from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., to fly as auxiliary payloads aboard rockets planned to launch in 2014,... Read more
Interorbital offers CubeSat berths for $10,000 a pop. MANY a youngster, Babbage included, has dreamed of going into space. But becoming an astronaut is a hard slog. Sandy Antunes suggests a... Read more
A penny-sized rocket thruster may soon power the smallest satellites in space. As small as a penny, these thrusters run on jets of ion beams. The device, designed by Paulo Lozano, an associa... Read more
Satellite design doesn’t have to be rocket science When you buy a mouse for your computer, removing the packaging is probably the hardest part of integrating it into your home system. Once y... Read more
