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Rely on a Smartphone, New NASA Satellites Do
Apr 29, 2013 (VOA)
Smartphones. We carry them in our pockets, toss them in our tote bags and have them at the ready whenever we want directions to a destination or to snap a pictu...
Ecuador launches first homemade satellite
Apr 26, 2013 (AFP)
Ecuador launched its first satellite into space from China Friday morning, in a moment broadcast live on radio and television back home. The "Pegaso" (Pegasus) ...
NASA Successfully Launches Three Smartphone Satellites
Apr 23, 2013 (SPX)
Three smartphones destined to become low-cost satellites rode to space Sunday aboard the maiden flight of Orbital Science Corp.'s Antares rocket from NASA's Wal...
Five Spacecraft Launched By Two Launch Vehicles From Two Continents
Apr 23, 2013 (SPX)
Spaceflight has announced that it successfully deployed five CubeSats from two different launch vehicles that were launched from two different continents. On Fr...
Proba-V minisatellite reaches Europe's Spaceport
Mar 20, 2013 (ESA)
ESA's Proba-V minisatellite for mapping global vegetation has arrived at Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana, where it is being prepared for a mid-April launch ...
NASA Ames' E. Coli Small Satellite Study Selected For Flight
Mar 19, 2013 (SPX)
NASA's CubeSat Launch Initiative (CSLI) recently selected E. coli AntiMicrobial Satellite (EcAMSat) as one of 24 small satellites to fly as secondary payloads a...
Smartphone satellite STRaND-1 operational in orbit
Mar 11, 2013 (SPX)
STRaND-1, the nanosatellite carrying a smartphone, has been declared operational in orbit by the mission team from the University of Surrey's Surrey Space Centr...
UK's TechDemoSat-1 to launch Q3 2013
Mar 07, 2013 (SPX)
Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL) has signed an agreement with Glavkosmos / NPO Lavotchkin for the launch of the UK technology demonstration mission, T...
NASA Announces New CubeSat Space Mission Candidates
Mar 01, 2013 (JPL)
NASA has selected 24 small satellites, including three from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., to fly as auxiliary payloads aboard rockets pl...
SSTL's 40th satellite platform launch: Sapphire reaches orbit
Feb 26, 2013 (SPX)
Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) is delighted that the Sapphire satellite, developed by prime contractor MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (MDA) on...
World's first phonesat, STRaND-1, launched into orbit
Feb 26, 2013 (SPX)
Launched into a 785km Sun-synchronous orbit on ISRO's PSLV launcher, the spacecraft is an innovative 3U CubeSat weighing 4.3 kg and is the world's first "phones...
Canada to launch nano-satellites
Feb 23, 2013 (UPI)
Canadian space program officials say the planned launch of two lunch box-sized satellites show "you can do really exciting things in space" on a small budget. T...
India to launch seven satellites on February 25
Feb 21, 2013 (IANS)
The Indian space agency will February 25 put into orbit seven foreign satellites including an Indo-French collaborative satellite SARAL and thus earn much wante...
Scotland's first satellite set to boldly go into orbit
Feb 08, 2013 (SPX)
Clyde-built nanosatellite set for Russian take-off as company reveals plan for US base Alex Salmond took a close-up view of Scotland's first satellite as the Gl...
Students: are you ready to fly your satellites in space?
Feb 04, 2013 (ESA)
They fit in your hand, weigh no more than a bag of sugar, yet fly in space and perform experiments. They are CubeSats, a new generation of miniature satellites....
PhoneSat: Smart, Small and Sassy
Jan 01, 2013 (SPX)
The fast-paced proliferation and popularity of mobile devices here on Earth, like smartphones loaded with powerful operating systems, will find a new niche mark...
Russian Rocket will launch Scotland's First Satellite
Dec 28, 2012 (SPX)
Scotland's first satellite will be launched from a Russian Soyuz-2 rocket in March 2013. UKube-1, built by Clyde Space in Glasgow, is now completing final testi...
Iran to unveil home-made satellite in Feb
Dec 26, 2012 (XNA)
Iran Space Agency (ISA) has announced that it will unveil a new home-made satellite in February, Tehran Times daily reported on Sunday. Director of ISA, Hamid F...
Boeing Delivers 2 Nanosatellites to US Air Force
Dec 19, 2012 (SPX)
Boeing has delivered two Space Environmental NanoSat Experiment (SENSE) satellites to the U.S. Air Force that will help assess the value of small satellites in ...
NASA's First Minisatellite Mission Comes to Successful End
Dec 04, 2012 (SPX)
After two successful years of on-orbit operations, NASA's Fast, Affordable, Science and Technology Satellite, or FASTSAT, mission is coming to an end. FASTSAT s...
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