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Russia launches 73 satellites into orbit
Jul 14, 2017 (AFP)
The Soyuz 2-1A rocket successfully lifted off at 0643 GMT with the satellite payload, Roscosmos said in a statement. According to Russian news agencies, Glavcos...
World's first demonstration of space quantum communication using a microsatellite
Jul 11, 2017 (SPX)
SOTA weighs 6 kg and its size is 17.8 cm length, 11.4 cm width and 26.8 cm height. It transmits a laser signal to the ground at a rate of 10 million bits per se...
PacSci EMC Proves New Technologies on Demonstrator Satellite
Jul 07, 2017 (SPX)
After a one-week satellite commissioning period in a 515 km, sun synchronous, polar orbit, PacSci EMC successfully passed built-in-tests (BIT) on both its prima...
PacSci EMC completes successful launch of demonstrator satellite
Jun 28, 2017 (SPX)
The mission was undertaken to give the company's customers additional assurance and confidence that an electronic controller and propulsion system perform as sp...
Indian Space Agency Prepares to Launch 31 Satellites in One Day
Jun 23, 2017 (Sputnik)
The earth observation satellite Cartosat-2 (712 kg) and 30 co-passenger satellites (combined weight of 243 kg) will be launched through the PSLV-C38 and sling t...
GomSpace to supply disruptive spectrum monitoring system based on nanosatellites
Jun 22, 2017 (SPX)
GomSpace will deliver the system to UnseenLabs into orbit as a turn-key solution with the launch date expected to happen in second half 2018. The system will op...
Three DIY CubeSats Score Rides on NASA's First Flight of Orion, Space Launch System
Jun 09, 2017 (SPX)
The three winning teams secured space to launch their CubeSats on Exploration Mission-1, the first integrated flight of NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) and Ori...
Cube Quest Challenge Team Spotlight CU-E3
Jun 05, 2017 (SPX)
CU-E3 is designed for a communications technology demonstration mission, slated to travel more than 2.5 million miles into space. As a Deep Space Derby entry, t...
NASA Builds Telescope to Learn About Neutron Stars
Jun 05, 2017 (VOA)
Looking at a life-size model of the Neutron Star Composition Explorer, or NICER for short, displayed at the Goddard Space Center, one can immediately see that i...
Cube Quest Challenge Team Spotlight: SEDS Triteia
May 29, 2017 (SPX)
This 3D-printed engine thruster is vital for the semi-autonomous, chemically propelled 6U CubeSat to make its journey to the moon, then maneuvering to enter lun...
NanoRacks CubeSat Deployer Mission 11 Status Update: Good Deploy
May 22, 2017 (SPX)
NRCSD-11 and NRSD-12 were brought to the International Space Station on the Orbital ATK-7 mission, which launched on April 18, 2017 from the Kennedy Space Cente...
Cube Quest Challenge Spotlight: Team Miles
May 19, 2017 (SPX)
The breadbox-size Miles is a 6U satellite built to navigate into deep space. Wesley Faler of Team Miles heads the group of citizen scientists and engineers that...
Indian Student Builds World's Smallest Satellite For NASA
May 18, 2017 (Sputnik)
Shaarook won the competition Cubes in Space, sponsored by NASA and the I Doodle Learning organization. Shaarook expressed his excitement over the news that his ...
CanX-7 Nanosatellite Shows Drag Sails are Effective at Deorbiting after Just One Week
May 12, 2017 (SPX)
A graph of the altitude decay rate shows the aerodynamic drag on the satellite has increased as a result of a changed ballistic coefficient. SFL expects that af...
Space Flight Laboratory deploys CanX-7 drag sails
May 05, 2017 (SPX)
Each drag sail has an area of approximately one square meter. The sails are intended to decrease the ballistic coefficient of the satellite and use atmospheric ...
NASA Selects Arkansas' First CubeSat
May 04, 2017 (SPX)
In February, NASA announced the selection of ArkSat-1 as one of 34 satellites from 19 states and the District of Columbia that will be launched into space betwe...
Sky and Space Global 3 Diamonds integrated to launch pod in the Netherlands
Apr 23, 2017 (SPX)
The 3 Diamonds will be transported from the premises of Innovative Space Logistics BV in the Netherlands to India ahead of the upcoming launch, which is schedul...
Space Flight Laboratory (SFL) to Discuss Remote Sensing SmallSat Missions at IAA Berlin
Apr 20, 2017 (SPX)
SFL, which is based at the University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies (UTIAS), will also have an exhibit booth at the IAA Symposium where two upcomin...
Australia's back in the satellite business with a new launch
Apr 20, 2017 (The Conversation)
Unlike the enormous satellites Australia uses for telecommunications, each of these new satellites is the size of a loaf of bread. But although small, they may ...
NASA selects CubeSat, SmallSat mission concept studies
Mar 23, 2017 (SPX)
NASA has selected ten studies under the Planetary Science Deep Space SmallSat Studies (PSDS3) program, to develop mission concepts using small satellites to inv...
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