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NanoRacks flies science mission for first Emirati Astronaut
Jul 30, 2019 (SPX)
NanoRacks also launched the first-ever microgravity experiment from Young Living - the world-leader in essential oils, amongst other educational research. Colle...
Student-built satellites deployed into orbit from the International Space Station
Jul 23, 2019 (SPX)
Virginia Tech's satellite - the first to be built by undergraduate students and launched into space - along with two satellites from other Virginia universities...
NASA funding is helping students build cubesats
Jul 18, 2019 (SPX)
The project was selected through NASA's Minority University Research and Education Project Institutional Research Opportunity, or MIRO, program. The UA, which w...
New safer, inexpensive way to propel small satellites
Jul 17, 2019 (SPX)
The first CubeSat was launched in 1999. Since then, more than 1,000 have been launched. The rapid development and application of nanosatellite technology has va...
SEAKR developing RF processors for NationSat constellation
Jul 17, 2019 (SPX)
Saturn is a company founded by space industry veterans focused on building small geostationary satellites, and is building its first NationSat satellite using a...
Spaceflight to launch multiple spacecraft from ISS via Cygnus
Jul 11, 2019 (SPX)
In a unique arrangement, the spacecraft will be arriving at the ISS through an ISS Cargo Resupply Mission aboard via a SpaceX Falcon 9 Dragon capsule from Cape ...
ESAIL undergoes its final preparations for launch
Jul 09, 2019 (ESA)
ESAIL has successfully completed its environmental testing campaign, which was performed in just five weeks in the specialised facilities of Centre Spatial de L...
Exolaunch has integrated 28 smallsats for July Soyuz launch
Jul 03, 2019 (SPX)
The smallsats will be launched on a single mission - this will be one of the largest and most technically challenging clusters ever delivered by a single small ...
Ozmens' SNC Satellite Boosts U.S. Exploration and Research
Jul 01, 2019 (SPX)
"SNC is expanding its satellite portfolio and the DSX spacecraft platform is a perfect example of how we can offer great technology and platforms that are cost-...
Small satellite concept finalists target Moon, Mars and beyond
Jun 21, 2019 (JPL)
The missions will contribute to NASA's goal of understanding our solar system's content, origin and evolution. They will also support planetary defense, and hel...
Firefly Aerospace Provides a DREAM Payload Opportunity
Jun 19, 2019 (SPX)
Today Firefly is taking their STEM commitment literally to the next level by announcing a global competition to host academic and educational payloads, free of ...
Sri Lanka joins global space age with first cube research satellite
Jun 18, 2019 (Sputnik)
India's neighbour Sri Lanka marked its entry into the global space age with the successful release of RAAVANA-1, the country's first cube research satellite, in...
Stanford and NASA Ames researchers put inexpensive chip-size satellites into orbit
Jun 06, 2019 (SPX)
"This is like the PC revolution for space," said Manchester, who joined the aeronautics and astronautics faculty last year. "We've shown that it's possible for ...
Dozens of satellites joining Vega's ride-share to space
Jun 06, 2019 (ESA)
Up until now the smallest classes of satellites - all the way down to tiny CubeSats, built from 10 cm modular boxes - have typically 'piggybacked' to orbit. The...
TechDemoSat-1 on-board camera captures drag sail deployment
Jun 03, 2019 (SPX)
Sarah Parker, Managing Director of SSTL, said "It is fantastic to see an image of TechDemoSat's deployed drag sail captured by the onboard inspection camera. Th...
Micro-Cameras and Space Exploration to join Pioneer-IODA project
May 27, 2019 (ESA)
The contract falls under ESA's Pioneer-IODA Partnership Project, which helps companies to develop new technologies and demonstrate them in space-often a pre-req...
ISISpace selected by the Hawaii Space Flight Laboratory to realize a 6U platform
May 27, 2019 (SPX)
The platform, called HyTI - Hyperspectral Thermal Imager, will demonstrate how high spectral (25 bands) and spatial resolution (60 m) thermal infrared image dat...
Space Flight Laboratory highlight 'Gray Jay' Arctic Surveillance project at CANSEC 2019
May 22, 2019 (SPX)
Gray Jay is a formation flying microsatellite constellation being developed by SFL for the Department of National Defence's science and technology organization,...
Planet-Hunter CubeSat Images Los Angeles
May 17, 2019 (JPL)
The greater Los Angeles area stands out in these images from ASTERIA, the Arcsecond Space Telescope Enabling Research in Astrophysics, a satellite not much larg...
UH satellite chosen for NASA space mission
May 16, 2019 (SPX)
In August 2018, the Hawai'i Institute of Geophysics and Planetology (HIGP) in the UH Manoa School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST) received $3....
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