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
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
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
Interplanetary Transport Network In its simplest form, a CubeSat is a cubical picosatellite that usually has an edge of 10 cm, a volume of a liter, and a mass less than 1.33 kg (2.9 lb). Sev... Read more
