There was a time when building your own satellite and having it placed into orbit would have been a wild dream. Now it is extremely possible, but still not trivial. A CubeSat is a very small ...

Want to build your own CubeSat but have been put off by the price? There may be a solution in the works — [RG Sat] has challenged himself to design and build one for less than $1,000. (Video ...

A CubeSat is a 10 centimeter cube, or exactly one liter of volume, that weighs about one kilogram. Anything you can fit into that shape is good to go. You can even bolt two or three cubes together.

Thus beginning their quest to build a small satellite, called a CubeSat, that would engage students around the world in Earth observations.

A University of Arizona satellite project was selected to be part of the NASA CubeSat Launch Initiative. The UA project is called CatSat and will be exploring the latest miniaturization of ...

A CubeSat today can cost as little as $100,000 to build, and buying a berth on something like a Falcon 9 runs around $250,000. In the aerospace industry, that’s spare change.

"We are the first grade school in the world to build a CubeSat," Pellegrino said. But for Pellegrino, the achievement and any space imagery from it are not the true measure of success.

The rapid advancement of CubeSat technologies has been essential in a variety of fields spanning from Earth observation to space exploration as well as satellite communication. These small ...

The first NASA-funded small satellite for exoplanet science is continuing to gather data well beyond its expected lifetime.

The student-run initiative to design a functioning satellite will culminate in its launch next year after nearly a decade of work despite delays.

SSU students to build NASA satellite for 2025 launch into polar cusp Sonoma State students are collaborating with NASA and other universities to launch cube satellites into the polar cusp.