Picture two tissue box-sized spacecraft orbiting Earth. Then picture them communicating, and using a water-powered thruster to approach each other.…
Good news from The Planetary Society: LightSail 2's solar sail is functioning as intended. After launching on June 25th, then…
A very important, but perhaps overlooked, aspect of the InSight mission was the first-ever deployment of CubeSats (MarCO) to deep…
A team of Japanese engineers recently constructed a scale-model of a space elevator, which will be sent to the ISS…
A team from the University of Manchester recently tested their prototype for a spinning heat shield, a lightweight, compact design…
The Fenix propulsion system, a pen-sized thruster designed by Italian tech company D-Orbit, could revolutionize the way CubeSats operate in…
The RemoveDebris satellite, a spacecraft designed to remove junk from orbit, recently deployed from the ISS to begin demonstrating its…
Nanosatellites and CubeSats may change the face of space exploration.
In a significant move towards further expansion of the International Space Station’s (ISS) burgeoning research and commercial space economy capabilities,…
Upon departing the ISS after a month-long stay, the Cygnus CRS OA-5 mission began conducting a controlled fire experiment... in…