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NanoRacks Completes Historic Third Round of ISS CubeSat Deployments
Mar 11, 2015 (SPX)
NanoRacks is pleased to announce the successful completion of it's third full round of CubeSat deployments from the International Space Station. Deployed from t...
CubeSats offered deep-space ride on ESA asteroid probe
Feb 27, 2015 (ESA)
Think of it as the ultimate hitchhiking opportunity: ESA is offering CubeSats a ride to a pair of asteroids in deep space. CubeSats are among the smallest types...
Virgin Galactic Opens New Design and Manufacturing Facility for LauncherOne
Feb 18, 2015 (SPX)
Virgin Galactic and Abu Dhabi's Aabar Investments PJS, is pleased to announce it has leased a new 150,000 square foot facility that will house design and manufa...
ALASA Getting Closer to Delivering Big Things in Small Packages to Space
Feb 09, 2015 (SPX)
Through its Airborne Launch Assist Space Access (ALASA) program, DARPA has been developing new concepts and architectures to get small satellites into orbit mor...
Iran launches first satellite since 2012
Feb 02, 2015 (AFP)
Iran launched an observation satellite Monday -- its first since 2012 -- with President Hassan Rouhani declaring it safely entered orbit and that he had persona...
Small CubeSat Provides Big Space Experience
Dec 26, 2014 (JPL)
Any way you slice it, space exploration -- done right -- requires an inordinate range of technical expertise. From designing the spacecraft, the mission proposa...
NASA Opens Cube Quest Challenge for Largest-Ever Prize of $5 Million
Nov 26, 2014 (SPX)
Registration now is open for NASA's Cube Quest Challenge, the agency's first in-space competition that offers the agency's largest-ever prize purse. Competitors...
CubeSat Instruments to Demonstrate NASA Firsts
Nov 19, 2014 (SPX)
The Dellingr six-unit CubeSat, which is taking its developers just one year to design, build and integrate, won't be the only potentially groundbreaking capabil...
NASA Skunkworks Team Set to Deliver 6U CubeSat
Nov 19, 2014 (SPX)
A NASA "skunkworks" team gave itself just one year to develop, test and integrate a newfangled CubeSat that could reliably and easily accommodate agency-class s...
zero2infinity will launch nanosatellites from the stratosphere
Oct 20, 2014 (SPX)
The Spanish company zero2infinity, based in Barcelona, known for its extensive Near-Space ballooning experience, announced it's been working to expand its capab...
JPL Selects Europa CubeSat Proposals for Study
Oct 11, 2014 (JPL)
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, has chosen proposals from 10 universities to study CubeSat concepts that could enhance a Europa missio...
Iran to Launch Three Locally Made Satellites
Oct 08, 2014 (RIA Novosti)
Iran is preparing to launch three new locally made satellites to the orbit, Fars News Agency reported citing the Deputy Head of the Iranian Space Agency (ISA) H...
Slovenia expects to launch nanosatellite within 3 years
Sep 16, 2014 (XNA)
Slovenian scientists are trying to improve the design and the making of a nanosatellite in a bid to have it launched into space in 2016 or 2017, Slovenian Press...
SSTL collaborates with Kypros on new turnkey, low-cost geostationary system
Sep 11, 2014 (SPX)
Surrey Satellite Technology (SSTL) and Kypros Satellites (Kyprosat) have signed an agreement to collaborate on a turnkey, low-cost geostationary telecommunicati...
NASA Announces Next Opportunity for CubeSat Space Missions
Aug 07, 2014 (SPX)
NASA is opening the next round of its CubeSat Launch Initiative, part of the White House Maker Initiative, in an effort to engage the growing community of space...
SSTL announces the successful launch of KazEOSat-2
Jun 26, 2014 (SPX)
Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) has announced the successful launch of KazEOSat-2, a medium resolution Earth observation satellite for the Republic of Ka...
Spaceflight Deploys Dove Constellation From Dnepr Launcher
Jun 25, 2014 (SPX)
Spaceflight Inc., the company reinventing the model for launching small satellites into space, has successfully deployed 11 Planet Labs Dove earth-imaging space...
SSTL announces TechDemoSat-1 launch date
May 27, 2014 (SPX)
Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) is announcing the launch of TechDemoSat-1, an in-orbit technology demonstration mission for innovative UK spacecraft equi...
New Space Research Platform Ready for Flight Test
May 12, 2014 (SPX)
The United States Rocket Academy announced the delivery of the first Lynx Cub Payload Carrier, a new research platform which promises to dramatically reduce the...
The Canadian Space Agency supports five studies on microsatellites
May 02, 2014 (SPX)
The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) has awarded five contracts to Canadian industry to perform feasibility studies on five potential future microsatellite missions....
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