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Iran capable of launching nano-satellites weighing below 10 kg: official
Oct 19, 2012 (XNA)
Iran Space Agency (ISA) Director Hamid Fazeli said the Islamic republic has the capability to launch nano-satellites weighing below 10 kg into space, Tehran Tim...
Andrews Space Partners With Innovative Solutions In Space (ISIS) To Manufacture EZPOD Dispensers In The United States
Oct 12, 2012 (SPX)
Andrews Space has signed an agreement with ISIS of the Netherlands to begin manufacturing a US version of the ISIPOD, branded the EZPOD, in the United States. U...
ISS Set to Launch Microsatellites
Oct 10, 2012 (RIA Novosti)
Five international microsatellites CubeSat are scheduled to be launched on Thursday from the International Space Station (ISS) following a week-long delay of te...
SSTL assists RapidEye ground station upgrade
Oct 09, 2012 (SPX)
Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) is undertaking a project to assist geospatial information provider RapidEye AG in upgrading and consolidating its ground ...
Cal Poly Licenses CubeSat Technology to Tyvak Nano-Satellite Systems
Oct 09, 2012 (SPX)
Cal Poly's Research and Graduate Programs office entered into a license agreement that allows Tyvak Nano-Satellite Systems LLC to develop and sell the patent-pe...
Japan mini-satellite to flash code from space
Oct 05, 2012 (AFP)
A palm-sized Japanese satellite in orbit around Earth will flash a Morse code message that will be visible around the world from next month, the mission command...
UK's Cubesat books a ride on Russian rocket
Sep 26, 2012 (SPX)
UKube-1 - the UK's first cubesat mission - has 'booked' its journey into space on a Russian Soyuz-2 rocket. The launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrone in Kazakhsta...
Myanmar to launch small satellite with help of Japan
Aug 28, 2012 (XNA)
Myanmar will launch a small globe- observing satellite with the assistance of Japan, official media reported Wednesday. The satellite will be launched with the ...
NASA builds satellites from smartphones
Aug 28, 2012 (UPI)
NASA says it's using off-the-shelf technology -- a smartphone -- to make the most inexpensive, easiest-to-build satellites in the history of space exploration. ...
South Africa to launch mini satellite
Aug 27, 2012 (XNA)
A mini satellite weighing 1.2 kilograms will be launched from the Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT) in November to collect information about space ...
Russian astronauts launch microsatellite
Aug 27, 2012 (Voice of Russia)
Cosmonauts Gennady Padalka and Yuri Malenchenko, working in open space, have successfully launched the microsatellite Sphere. During their spacewalk, Padalka an...
MIT-developed 'microthrusters' could propel small satellites
Aug 21, 2012 (SPX)
A penny-sized rocket thruster may soon power the smallest satellites in space. The device, designed by Paulo Lozano, an associate professor of aeronautics and a...
CINEMA among tiny CubeSats to be launched August 2nd
Aug 01, 2012 (SPX)
Eleven tiny satellites called CubeSats will accompany a spy satellite into Earth orbit on Thursday, Aug. 2, inaugurating a new type of inexpensive, modular nano...
ATK Introduces Expanded Product Line of Small Satellite Spacecraft Platforms
Aug 01, 2012 (SPX)
ATK will expand its product line of small, agile satellite buses designed for a wide range of missions in civil, national security and commercial applications. ...
German TET-1 small satellite launched
Jul 24, 2012 (SPX)
On 22 July 2012 at 08:41:39 CEST, the first small German satellite in the 'On-Orbit-Verification' (OOV) programme was carried into orbit from the Cosmodrome in ...
Russia Launches Soyuz-FG Rocket with Five Satellites
Jul 24, 2012 (RIA Novosti)
Russia's Soyuz-FG carrier rocket with a group of five satellites on board has blasted off from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan, a spokesman for the Russ...
Nano-satellite offers best hope for Australia's future in space
Jul 13, 2012 (SPX)
A lightweight spacecraft with capabilities that punch above its weight could provide the perfect launching pad for a sustainable Australian space program, a lea...
Astrofein To Launch TET-1 Satellite Soyuz-Fregat July 22
Jul 13, 2012 (SPX)
Astrofein has announced the planned launch of TET-1 satellite, a satellite for the On-Orbit-Verification (OOV) program of the German space Agency DLR. Originall...
SST US collaborates with Virgin Galactic to offer radically cheaper options for small satellites
Jul 12, 2012 (SPX)
Surrey Satellite Technology US LLC (SST-US) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Virgin Galactic optimizing Surrey's innovative satellites for Vi...
SwRI Building Eight NASA Nanosatellites to Help Predict Extreme Weather Events on Earth
Jun 25, 2012 (SPX)
NASA has selected a team including Southwest Research Institute to develop the Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System (CYGNSS), which will provide better pr...
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