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
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