CubeSats usually conclude their missions by burning up as they enter the atmosphere after their orbits slowly decay. Case in ...

CubeSats are tiny satellites which tag along as secondary payloads during launches. They have to weigh in at under 1.33 kg, and are often built at low cost. There’s even open source designs for ...

"EZIE is the first mission dedicated exclusively to studying the electrojets," Larry Kepko, an EZIE mission scientist at NASA ...

NASA’s upcoming EZIE mission will use three small satellites to study electrojets — powerful electrical currents in the upper atmosphere linked to auroras. These mysterious currents influence ...

Assabet students became certified in quality control, which allows them to participate in an important part of NASA's ...

Space is hard, especially if you haven’t done it before. A growing number of CubeSats are launched by small, inexperienced teams every year, and a number of them fail due to missing some small ...

"We developed a scheme that allows the CubeSats to operate efficiently without colliding," said aerospace Ph.D. student Ruthvik Bommena. "These small spacecraft have limited onboard computation ...

For the first time, the University of Michigan Department of Astronomy is leading the launch of a satellite into space.

NASA's EZIE will study auroral electrojets, powerful electrical currents in Earth's atmosphere. This will improve space ...

Credit: Spire Global SAN FRANCISCO – Spire Global established two-way optical communications for the first time between two six-unit cubesats. The cubesats, equipped with an optical ...

NASA’s EZIE mission will study electrojets to improve space weather forecasts, using CubeSats and the Zeeman effect to map ...