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NanoRacks selected as launch provider for Canadian cubesat project
May 08, 2018 (SPX)
The project provides funding to post-secondary institutions in Canada as part of a challenge to design, build, launch, and operate their own satellites which wi...
NASA's First Deep-Space CubeSats Say: Polo
May 07, 2018 (JPL)
Mars Cube One, or MarCO, is a pair of briefcase-sized spacecraft that launched along with NASA's InSight Mars lander at 4:05 a.m. PDT (7:05 a.m. EDT) Saturday f...
What Happens After Launch: Two NASA Educational CubeSats
May 07, 2018 (UPI)
The educational CubeSat missions were selected through the CubeSat Launch Initiative as part of the 14th installment of NASA's Educational Launch of Nanosatelli...
Mars-bound CubeSats send first signals from space
May 07, 2018 (UPI)
Like the InSight lander, the two craft are headed to Mars. Both were carried into space by a United Launch Alliance rocket on Saturday morning. "Both MarCO-A an...
Arianespace to launch the first STRIVING small satellite for SITAEL on Vega's SSMS POC flight
May 04, 2018 (SPX)
The first STRIVING small satellite will be launched on Vega in 2019 from the Guiana Space Center, Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. STRIVING is a new...
X-ray navigation considered for possible CubeSat mission
May 04, 2018 (SPX)
Interest in this emerging capability to guide spacecraft to the far reaches of the solar system comes just months after NASA scientist Keith Gendreau and his te...
Arianespace and D-Orbit sign contract to launch ION Cubesat Carrier on Vega SSMS POC flight
May 03, 2018 (SPX)
D-Orbit's ION CubeSat Carrier, a free flying CubeSat deployer and technology demonstrator, will be launched on Vega in 2019 from the Guiana Space Center, Europe...
NanoRacks, ALTEC, Thales announce international business development partnership
Apr 24, 2018 (SPX)
The office will serve as a business development hub for European and Asian customers. International customers will enjoy NanoRacks end-to-end turnkey services a...
NanoRacks awarded GSA Schedule Contract for in-space services
Apr 24, 2018 (SPX)
NanoRacks, the commercial market leader in low-Earth orbit, is offering its flagship services within the GSA schedule, centered around microgravity research and...
NASA engineers dream big with small spacecraft
Apr 20, 2018 (JPL)
But in the past two decades, mini-satellites called CubeSats have made space accessible to a new generation. These briefcase-sized boxes are more focused in the...
CubeSat to Test Instrument for Crystal Clear Data Collection
Apr 19, 2018 (SPX)
Radio frequency interference (RFI) is very common. Familiar sources that generate RFI include cell phones, radio and television transmissions, satellite broadca...
Arianespace and Spaceflight sign contract to launch small satellites on Vega SSMS POC flight
Apr 19, 2018 (SPX)
Arianespace has signed a landmark agreement with Spaceflight Industries for the launch of several small payloads. This will be the inaugural mission for Spacefl...
World's smallest Laser Communication Terminal from Tesat on track
Apr 17, 2018 (SPX)
CubeL is a joint development program between the Optical Communication Systems (OCS) group of the DLR Institute of Communications and Navigation (IKN) and Tesat...
Astrophysics CubeSat Demonstrates Big Potential in a Small Package
Apr 13, 2018 (JPL)
Mission managers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, recently announced that ASTERIA has accomplished all of its primary mission object...
Kuang-Chi and NanoRacks team up for near space 'Traveler' program
Mar 27, 2018 (SPX)
Kuang-Chi's Traveler is a breakthrough platform in the emerging economy of space, offering secure and affordable access to suborbital space for space tourism an...
India testing locally developed metal-based origami payload
Mar 27, 2018 (SPX)
The first two satellites (INS-1A and INS-1B) of this series were carried as co-passenger payloads by PSLV-C37 in February 2017. INS-1C carries Miniature Multi-s...
Launch Reservation with Open Cosmos
Feb 16, 2018 (SPX)
"This agreement with Open Cosmos continues our ongoing efforts to partner with a broad network of customers, and signals the start of a new frontier for Vector ...
The size of a cereal box: ESA's first satellite of 2018
Feb 06, 2018 (ESA)
These CubeSats are built around standard 10x10 cm units by GomSpace in Denmark. As 'six-unit' CubeSats they are as big as cereal boxes - but double the size of ...
Fourth GomSpace mission aims to pioneer advanced use of nanosatellites
Feb 02, 2018 (SPX)
It will monitor and demonstrate Satellite Communication between Nanosatellites, and the in-orbit results and experiences gained from the GOMX-4 experiences will...
Russia launches 11 space satellites 'without glitch'
Feb 01, 2018 (AFP)
The country's first orbital launch of 2018 came after a similar liftoff from the cosmodrome in eastern Russia ended in embarrassment, with officials losing cont...
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