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KazSTSat and VESTA due to lift-off on Spaceflight's SSO-A SmallSat Express Mission
Nov 16, 2018 (SPX)
KazSTSat is a small Earth observation satellite jointly developed by SSTL and JV Ghalam LLP, a joint venture between JSC "National Company Kazakhstan Garysh Sap...
Spaceflight arranges launch of 12 satellites aboard India's PSLV C43
Nov 09, 2018 (SPX)
'In addition to securing capacity aboard the launch vehicle, Spaceflight executed the integration of most of the payloads at its Seattle integration facility. T...
Dellingr: the little CubeSat that could
Oct 24, 2018 (SPX)
These small satellites, measured in standardized 10-by-10-by-10 cubic centimeter units, weigh no more than a few pounds - bearing little resemblance to the larg...
NASA's first image of Mars from a cubesat
Oct 23, 2018 (JPL)
One of the twin MarCO CubeSats snapped this image of Mars on Oct. 3 - the first image of the Red Planet ever produced by this class of tiny, low-cost spacecraft...
NanoRacks welcomes first Chief Operating Officer
Oct 16, 2018 (SPX)
Most recently, Purgerson served as a Senior Project Manager for the Texas National Guard where she provided executive oversight for special projects which inclu...
Sky and Space Global (SAS) awarded EU grant, signs 5 agreements with telecom operators
Oct 15, 2018 (SPX)
The Company has been awarded a 1.25m Polish Zloti (~A$500k) R and D grant by the Polish Government to initiate a project into M2M device and smart grid innovati...
MASCOT completes first scientific 'stroll' across asteroid Ryugu
Oct 12, 2018 (UPI)
After being released last week by Hayabusa-2, the Japanese space agency probe circling Ryugu, MASCOT conducted a 17-hour scientific exploration, using its instr...
NanoRacks announces industry team supporting winning NASA LEO commercialization proposal
Oct 11, 2018 (SPX)
Today, NanoRacks is pleased to share the expansive industry team that the Company will be working with to complete this study and show the viability of commerci...
NanoSat hyperspectral camera delivers data after one year of space weather and a solar storm
Oct 11, 2018 (SPX)
The hyperspectral camera on Aalto-1 operates in a wavelength range of 500-900 nanometres and is half a cubesat unit (0.5U) in size, or 5 cm x 10 cm x 10 cm. Whi...
NASA tests tiny satellites to track global storms
Sep 26, 2018 (JPL)
A satellite no bigger than a shoebox may one day help. Small enough to fit inside a backpack, the aptly named RainCube (Radar in a CubeSat) uses experimental te...
Samara engineers present new propulsion system for nanosats
Sep 14, 2018 (SPX)
The presented propulsion system for the maneuvering nanosatellite SamSat-M (its dimensions are 10x10x30 cm) is electrothermal. The scientists proposed a mixture...
UCLA students launch project that's out of this world
Sep 14, 2018 (SPX)
Although UCLA has been building space instruments for NASA and other international space missions for more than 40 years, and members of its faculty have been c...
MarCO makes space for small explorers
Sep 14, 2018 (JPL)
This summer, NASA has been flying the first two next-generation CubeSats to deep space. They're currently on their way to Mars, trailing thousands of miles behi...
History of CubeSats
Sep 10, 2018 (SPX)
In addition to being light and small, designers often use commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) electronic and structural components. Although bunches of CubeSats hav...
ASTERIA Wins Small Satellite Mission of the Year Award
Aug 15, 2018 (JPL)
The mission is a collaboration between NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, and the Massachusets Institute of Technology, Cambridge. The awar...
Scientists reduced the weight of optics for satellite observation by 100 times
Aug 10, 2018 (SPX)
In this paper, the technology of manufacturing of a 256-layer diffraction harmonic lens and the algorithms for reconstructing the obtained images are described....
Britain competes for the launch of an estimated 2,000 satellites by 2030
Aug 10, 2018 (SPX)
He commented that thanks to the UK's location, planned regulatory framework, private sector strategy and space ecosystem, Britain has a competitive advantage to...
Arianespace to launch Spire small satellites on Vega SSMS POC flight
Aug 09, 2018 (SPX)
With more than 80 satellites placed in orbit during the past four years, Spire has quickly become an important leader in the New Space community. Built in-house...
New launch unit standards announced for smallsats
Aug 08, 2018 (SPX)
This standard provides major benefits to the smallsat industry-manufacturers, launch providers, and satellite users-by increasing access to space and decreasing...
NASA licenses smallsat technology to Thermal Management Technologies
Aug 07, 2018 (SPX)
"We chatted a bit about a couple of NASA technologies that complemented some small satellite structures TMT is developing, and I became interested in learning m...
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