Foldable design expands to 25 times its stowed sized ...

Elysium customers receive a smartphone application they can share with family and friends to track the cubesat, which is expected to remain in a sun-synchronous low-Earth orbit for about two years.

Artist's concept of the Lunar IceCube spacecraft searching for water from lunar orbit. (Morehead State University) A spacecraft the size of a cereal box will soon be hunting for water on the moon.

MIT engineers are testing a new propulsion system that combines the power and speed of conventional chemical thrusters with ...

CubeSat technology on the order of a magnitude smaller and cheaper than conventional planetary science satellites should make its debut in lunar orbit as early as 2017. Although such nano-satellite ...

CAPSTONE is an important mission for the next generation of space exploration. A significant step on this ambitious journey will be a crewed mission to the surface of the moon under the Artemis ...

New York, United States, Oct. 26, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Miniature satellites known as CubeSats are much simpler to create, develop, and launch than traditional satellites. By combining different ...

When the InSight lander began its journey to Mars on May 5th, two tiny satellites tagged along for the ride — CubeSats called MarCO-A and MarCO-B. CubeSats are a small and relatively inexpensive type ...

The University of Wurzburg Experimental-4 cubesat, pictured, houses four 160-gram Nano Field Effect Electric Propulsion (NanoFEEP) thrusters from German startup Morpheus Space. Credit: Morpheus Space ...

A cubesat mission has a big objective to verify a keystone of NASA's future lunar operations. CAPSTONE, short for "Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation ...