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…
Developed near the turn of the century, CubeSat technology has made space exploration and orbital research a lot more accessible.
Scientists at NASA"s Goddard Space Flight Center are developing the photon sieve, a small, inexpensive device designed to study the…
NASA's two small MarCO CubeSats will be flying past Mars in 2016 just as NASA's next Mars lander, InSight, is…
Blastoff of the X-37B spaceplane on United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket with the OTV-4 AFSPC-5 satellite for the…
As the space community counts down the days to the long-awaited Dec. 4 uncrewed launch of the Orion spacecraft --…
One doesn't take two cubesats and rub them together to make static electricity. Rather, you send them on a brief space voyage…
Astronauts fired up the International Space Station's Yard-a-Pult (actually, we mean the Japanese Kibo arm's satellite launcher) this week to…
We’ve had several articles recently cubesats -- low-cost satellites that seem to be the wave of the future. As technology…