CubeSat
Building a Satellite out of Wood? Use Magnolia
Typically when you think of a satellite, you think of a metal box with electronic components inside it. But that…
Pale Blue Successfully Operates its Water-Based Propulsion System in Orbit
New in-space propulsion techniques seem to be popping out of the woodwork. The level of innovation behind moving things around…
NASA is Testing out new Composite Materials for Building Lightweight Solar Sail Supports
Space exploration is driven by technology - sometimes literally in the case of propulsion technologies. Solar sails are one of…
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