CubeSat
A Small Satellite With a Solar Sail Could Catch up With an Interstellar Object
When Oumuamua, the first interstellar object ever observed passing through the Solar System, was discovered in 2017, it exhibited some…
Teeny Tiny Space Telescope has Taken Thousands of Pictures of Both Earth and Space
A new nanosat has been quietly snapping over 4500 pictures of the Earth and the sky after its launch on…
A Cubesat Will Test out Water as a Propulsion System
Novel propulsion systems for CubeSats have been on an innovative tear of late. UT has reported on propulsion systems that…
The First Cubesat With a Hall-Effect Thruster has Gone to Space
Student-led teams aren’t the only ones testing out novel electric propulsion techniques recently. Back in November, a company called Exotrail…
A New Satellite Is Going to Try to Maintain Low Earth Orbit Without Any Propellant
Staying afloat in space can be deceptively hard. Just ask the characters from Gravity, or any number of the hundreds…
LightSail 2 Mission is Going Strong and Sending Mission Info Home!
The Planetary Society recently launched its LightSail 2 technology demonstrator, which could prove to be an effective means of propulsion…
NASA Tests a Tiny Satellite to Track Extreme Weather and Storms
NASA recently deployed a technology demonstrator called the RainCube, a miniature satellite that could revolutionize how we monitor weather
NASA Cubesat Takes a Picture of the Earth and Moon
NASA's MarCO Cubesats, which are currently on their way to Mars with the InSight Lander, recently snapped a "pale blue…
NASA Plans to Send CubeSat To Venus to Unlock Atmospheric Mystery
As part of its Planetary Science Deep Space SmallSat Studies program, NASA has selected a CubeSat mission to study Venus'…
What are CubeSats?
Developed near the turn of the century, CubeSat technology has made space exploration and orbital research a lot more accessible.