Two sets of CubeSats take flight from the International Space Station. NASA Back in February an Indian Space Research Organization rocket deployed over a hundred miniature spacecraft into Earth orbit.

Chinese scientists push for cubesat swarm mission to fly by infamous asteroid Apophis China could launch a mission involving multiple flybys of asteroid Apophis with a swarm of cubesats when the rocky ...

NASA said the primary missions of the Starling satellite swarm have been met ten months after the mission was ... And that's exactly what the Starling CubeSat spacecraft set out to do ten ...

Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB) (“Rocket Lab” or “the Company”), a global leader in launch services and space systems, today announced it has sign ...

The alternative is an aggregated swarm, in which separate CubeSats rendezvous and dock together, potentially with a larger central hub, to form a larger modular spacecraft that can autonomously ...

The National Science Foundation is highlighting the SWARM-EX CubeSats. The three cube satellite project, formally titled Space Weather Atmospheric Reconfigurable Multiscale Experiment (SWARM-EX), is ...

The space agency itself is experimenting with water-based thrusters on board a swarm of CubeSats for NASA’s Pathfinder Technology Demonstrator, the first in a series of missions launched aboard ...

CubeSats – miniature, agile and cheap satellites – are revolutionizing how scientists study the cosmos. A standard-size CubeSat is tiny, about 4 pounds (roughly 2 kilograms).

In the midst of its campaign to deliver a four-cubesat constellation into orbit to track hurricanes, Rocket Lab was awarded another NASA contract to launch a second multi-cubesat mission to ...

Sweating the Small Stuff: CubeSats Swarm Earth Orbit. News. By Leonard David published 25 July 2017 When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.