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Company Tests Iodine Thruster in Space for the First Time
Ion thrusters have played second fiddle to chemical rockets for most of the history of space exploration. Part of that…
Artemis 1 is Launching in February
It’s been a long time coming, but NASA’s next moon rocket is just months from liftoff on its first uncrewed…
IBM Space Tech Wants to “Democratize Space” with ENDURANCE.
IBM Space Tech is launching Endurance, CubeSat mission that children from all over the world will be able to use…
NASA has Chosen 4 new Pioneer Missions: Aspera, Pandora, StarBurst, and PEUO
Budget constraints are a major consideration for every space program throughout the world. Lately, NASA has taken a particularly bold…
Virgin Orbit Successfully Launches a Batch of Satellites From an Airplane
Virgin Orbit has successfully tested its new air-launch system (LauncherOne) that will deliver small satellites to orbit in the near…
Tiny Cubesat Detects an Exoplanet
A team of MIT researchers have observed a Super-Earth using a CubeSat, making it the smallest satellite to study an…
LightSail 2 is Still Solar Sailing, But it’s Getting Lower and Lower with Each Orbit
LightSail 2 deployed it solar sail five months ago, and it's still orbiting Earth. It's a successful demonstration of the…
NASA Tests Water Powered Spacecraft in Orbit
Picture two tissue box-sized spacecraft orbiting Earth. Then picture them communicating, and using a water-powered thruster to approach each other.…
The Light Sail is Working… It’s Working!
Good news from The Planetary Society: LightSail 2's solar sail is functioning as intended. After launching on June 25th, then…
One of the Most Exciting Parts of InSight is Actually the Tiny Cubesats Tagging Along for the Ride and Their Role in the Mission
A very important, but perhaps overlooked, aspect of the InSight mission was the first-ever deployment of CubeSats (MarCO) to deep…