NASA’s Starling satellites have started in-orbit commissioning activities in preparation for their mission to demonstrate technologies for autonomous navigation, networking, decision-making and planning and execution. The four 6U-sized small satellites have made
MoreThe Air Force Research Laboratory’s small satellite is carrying out extended operations after completing its mission to assess the survivability and performance of commercial-off-the-shelf technologies in the geosynchronous Earth orbit. The 12-unit
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NASA has opened new opportunities for educational institutions and nonprofit organizations to develop small satellites and conduct scientific investigations and technology demonstrations in space. The agency said Monday the next round of
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The Missile Defense Agency launched two nanosatellites aboard Virgin Orbit’s LauncherOne rocket in late June as part of its CubeSat Networked Communications Experiment Block 1 mission. “The CNCE Block 1 mission will
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NASA works to understand the formation of sun-based weather storms in space and in turn protect astronauts from solar radiation. The space agency said Monday that it will deploy six CubeSat satellites to further study solar
MoreNASA plans to launch two small satellites for a mission to study the distortions of radio signal transmissions through the ionosphere, a region where particles ionize into plasma this month. The Enhanced
MoreNASA has announced its two Mars Cube One satellites have transmitted information from the InSight spacecraft to the agency’s Deep Space Network in real time, SpaceNews.com reported.
MoreNASA has awarded a total of $3.6 million in grants to 10 mission concept studies that will use small satellites to explore Venus, Earth’s moon, asteroids, Mars and outer planets. The agency said Thursday awardees on the
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NASA hired interns during the summer to support the explorations and space communications projects division at the agency’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland. Forty-eight students from 25 different U.S. schools participated in internship programs
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The International Space Station launched a pair of small NASA satellites Monday using a NanoRacks-built deployer system as part of an agency project that aims to demonstrate operation and networking of CubeSats in low-Earth orbit. NASA said Wednesday each
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