Just a short distance inland from the waves crashing against California's shore, NASA's Relativistic Electron Atmospheric ...

Small spacecraft also have the potential to expand their capabilities with deployable booms, sails and antennas. For instance, atmospheric drag sails are becoming an increasingly proven way for small ...

NASA has extended its CAPSTONE moon mission through December 2025, allowing the cubesat to continue its pioneering exploration work.

NASA scientists prep the ASTERIA spacecraft for its April 2017 launch. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Most CubeSats weigh less than a bowling ball, and some are small enough to hold in your hand.

NASA’s BurstCube satellite, a shoebox-sized CubeSat, has successfully detected its first gamma-ray burst (GRB)—one of the most energetic explosions in the universe. The satellite, which was ...

Sixteen CubeSats carrying a range of engineering, science and educational projects developed by U.S. universities, nonprofits and NASA field centers are eligible for secondary payload flight ...

An instrument aboard the CIRBE CubeSat is using advanced detection techniques and leveraging an orbit with specific characteristics to increase our understanding of the Van Allen belts Designed and ...

SpaceX Receives NASA CubeSat Launch Task OrderThe two CSLI missions will launch onboard SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket no earlier than 2025 as part of the agency’s Venture-Class Acquisition of ...

One of PREFIRE’s two shoebox-size cube satellites, or CubeSats, launched on May 25 from New Zealand, followed by its twin on June 5. The first CubeSat started sending back science data on July 1.

That's not an exaggeration -- each of the two portions of Esper's CubeSat Application for Planetary Entry Missions, or CAPE, is supposed to measure just 4 inches to a side, and weigh less than 12 ...

NASA said on Saturday its Kennedy Space Center will place orders for CubeSat dispenser hardware, associated mass simulators and mission integration services through the indefinite-delivery ...