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Lockheed Martin LINUSS Small Satellites ready for 2021 launch
Jul 30, 2021 (ESA)
LINUSS is a pair of LM 50 12U CubeSats - each about the size of a four-slice toaster - designed to demonstrate how small satellites can serve an essential role ...
First test of Europe's new space brain
Jul 30, 2021 (ESA)
On 26 June 2021, ESA's OPS-SAT space lab became the first spacecraft to be monitored and controlled using the EGS-CC - proving that this software of the future ...
Finnish forestry firm gets approval to launch tiny satellite made of plywood
Jul 15, 2021 (Sputnik)
It could become the first wooden object in orbit - it's Woodsat, a test satellite made out of birch-plywood. If successful, it could allow for small satellites ...
Suspected secret satellite launched from ISS was just Japanese CubeSat
Jul 05, 2021 (Sputnik)
Sputnik reported on 1 July that the United States had secretly launched a satellite from its segment of the ISS, cataloged by the space-track.org service as BD-...
Satellites launched to boost connectivity and create jobs
Jul 02, 2021 (ESA)
The satellites will be used to monitor climate change, forecast the weather, track ships at sea and aeroplanes in flight, and connect electronic devices to one ...
Exolaunch Delivers One Ton of Small Satellites into Orbit on SpaceX's Transporter-2 Rideshare Mission
Jul 02, 2021 (SPX)
The mission, named 'Fingerspitzengefuhl', lifted off on June 30 at 19:31 UTC on Falcon 9 'Transporter-2', completing one of the largest and most diverse ridesha...
Finnish company will test tiny, wooden satellite in space
Jun 23, 2021 (UPI)
Small launch company Rocket Lab plans to carry the Woodsat into space aboard an Electron rocket lifting off from New Zealand. The goal of the mission is to dete...
Joint Livermore Tyvak space telescope goes into orbit
Jun 18, 2021 (SPX)
Known as GEOStare2, the payload has two space telescopes that together have taken more than 4,500 pictures for space domain awareness, astronomy and Earth obser...
ESA flying payloads on wooden satellite
Jun 11, 2021 (ESA)
WISA Woodsat is a 10x10x10 cm 'CubeSat' - a type of nanosatellite built up from standardised boxes - but with surface panels made from plywood. Woodsat's only n...
Lunar IceCube passes critical testing at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
Jun 09, 2021 (SPX)
The spacecraft must go through intensive testing on Earth before flight to ensure the systems can survive a rocket launch and perform in the harsh environment o...
Manchester scientists to launch low-orbiting satellite on SpaceX mission
May 25, 2021 (SPX)
The DISCOVERER project is a 5.7 million euro project led by The University of Manchester. It aims to revolutionise Earth observation satellites, developing tech...
NanoAvionics aims for 30 percent US-market share for smallsats
May 25, 2021 (SPX)
Through this hub, NanoAvionics will further grow the portfolio and expand into other locations across the USA. The company is also using it to coordinate all bu...
ASU student-built spacecraft to interact with the public
May 21, 2021 (SPX)
The ASU CubeSat, named LightCube, is about the size of a toaster and will be deployed to low-Earth orbit (LEO). Its unique feature is that it can be commanded b...
Cool test of Proba-V companion
May 20, 2021 (ESA)
Space is a place where it is possible to be hot and cold at the same time, if one part of your satellite is in sunlight and another face in shade. A satellite's...
China's small-satellite smart manufacturing facility starts operations
May 17, 2021 (XNA)
The first satellite is a typical product for mass production self-developed by China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation, Ltd. (CASIC). This new developm...
COVID-19 Impact on Smallsat Market Mitigated by Funding Availability, Government Support
Apr 09, 2021 (SPX)
The main driver for this continued growth during a time where many face pandemic-related challenges is plans for satcom broadband "mega-constellations" and the ...
SwRI's 100-kg small satellite platform added to NASA's RDSO catalog
Apr 07, 2021 (SPX)
Rapid IV contracts serve as a fast and flexible means for the government to acquire spacecraft and related components, equipment and services in support of NASA...
BioSentinel team prepares cubesat for deep space flight
Apr 02, 2021 (SPX)
It's one of 13 CubeSats that will launch aboard Artemis I, the first flight of the Artemis program's Space Launch System. Here, inside an anechoic chamber at Am...
Getting the CubeSats moving at ESA
Apr 02, 2021 (ESA)
CubeSats are small, cheap satellites assembled from standardised parts in 10 cm boxes - M-Argo is a 12-unit CubeSat. Originally intended for educational purpose...
SpaceX launches Transporter-4 rideshare mission from Florida
Apr 01, 2021 (UPI)
The two-stage Falcon 9 rocket blasted off on time at 12:25 p.m. EDT from Space Launch Complex 40 Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Fla., carrying dozens of sm...
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