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Taylor Small Satellite Launched
Apr 24, 2014 (SPX)
Following three launch delays, the Taylor University nanosatellite was launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket this afternoon from Cape Canaveral, Florida. The...
UoSAT-2 clocks up an outstanding 30 years of in-orbit operations
Mar 09, 2014 (SPX)
Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd and the Surrey Space Centre are celebrating a remarkable thirty years of in-orbit operations from one of its earliest satellites...
It's a March of the CubeSats as ISS Deployment Continues
Mar 06, 2014 (SPX)
It's a bird, it's a plane, it's a CubeSat! With so many small, relatively inexpensive satellites deploying lately from the International Space Station, it may s...
Hundreds of tiny satellites could soon deliver free internet worldwide
Feb 24, 2014 (Voice of Russia)
Developers say they are less than a year away from deploying prototype satellites that could someday soon broadcast free and universal internet all over the glo...
Give your CubeSat some Thrust this Valentine's
Feb 17, 2014 (SPX)
Welcome to the World of CubeSat Ion Propulsion! Hot out of our CubeSat Lab, please let me introduce the most advanced method of getting about in space. Our Cube...
First mission for SSTL's new X50 platform will be for Kazakh customer
Jan 20, 2014 (SPX)
Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) and Ghalam LLP (Kazakhstan) have agreed that SSTL's new X50 platform design will deliver KazSTSAT, a small satellite miss...
Johns Hopkins APL Will Launch RAVAN to Help Solve an Earth Science Mystery
Dec 17, 2013 (SPX)
A new, low-cost cubesat mission led by the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md., will demonstrate technology needed to measure the absolute i...
UNH Scientists Launch CubeSats into Radiation Belts
Dec 17, 2013 (SPX)
Twin, pintsized satellites built in part at the University of New Hampshire's Space Science Center by UNH graduate student Alex Crew were launched into orbit fr...
Johns Hopkins APL Will Launch RAVAN Cubesat to Help Solve an Earth Science Mystery
Dec 13, 2013 (SPX)
A new, low-cost cubesat mission led by the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md. will demonstrate technology needed to measure the absolute im...
Thinking Inside The Box, Launching Into Space
Dec 10, 2013 (JPL)
Two tiny, cube-shaped research satellites hitched a ride to Earth orbit to validate new hardware and software technologies for future NASA Earth-observing instr...
Launch Propels Southcom-sponsored Nanosatellite Into Space
Dec 09, 2013 (SPX)
An Atlas V rocket launched last night from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., carried a U.S. Southern Command-sponsored nanosatellite into space -- and with it,...
NASA's Latest Space Technology Small Satellite Phones Home
Dec 06, 2013 (SPX)
PhoneSat 2.4, NASA's next generation smartphone cubesat has phoned home. The tiny spacecraft that uses an off-the-shelf smartphone for a brain has completed che...
End of the beginning for Swarm trio
Nov 28, 2013 (ESA)
Reaching a significant milestone for ESA's magnetic field mission, the Swarm satellites have completed the critical first phase of their new mission. Over the w...
Russia launches cluster of foreign satellites
Nov 25, 2013 (XNA)
A carrier rocket with a cluster of foreign satellites aboard blasted off from Russia's Yasny-Dombarovsky launch site in the southeastern Orenburg region, the St...
Ecuador launches second nano-satellite
Nov 25, 2013 (XNA)
Ecuador's Civilian Space Agency (EXA) successfully launched the second nano-satellite into space early Thursday, the government-run news agency Andes reported. ...
Dnepr Rocket Puts International Satellites Into Orbit
Nov 25, 2013 (RIA Novosti)
A Dnepr rocket carrying a number of international satellites delivered its cargo into near-earth orbit Thursday following a launch from the Yasny facility in Ru...
NASA Launches Next Generation PhoneSat, Ames-Developed Launch Adapter
Nov 22, 2013 (SPX)
A second-generation smartphone cubesat as well as a nanosatellite deployment system, launched into space Tuesday from the Virginia coast. The cubesats were incl...
Swarm on the launch pad
Nov 20, 2013 (ESA)
Preparations for Friday's launch of ESA's magnetic explorer have reached an important milestone - the constellation is now in the Plesetsk launch tower. The tea...
NASA launches fleet of student-built satellites into orbit
Nov 19, 2013 (UPI)
A satellite designed, built, tested and operated by students at Saint Louis University was launched on a rocket from Virginia Tuesday, NASA said. The students' ...
Lift-off for sales at Clyde Space as Scotland's first satellite is shipped for launch
Oct 31, 2013 (SPX)
Clyde Space has announced record sales of 1.65million pounds for the last six months. This is more than double the sales figure for the same period of last year...
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