A giant slingshot might sound like something out of a science fair or a medieval battle—but one California startup is turning ...

The CubeSats provide their own deployment and propulsion systems that will take them to specific destinations including the Moon and an asteroid. (NASA) 10 shoebox-sized CubeSats will hitch a ride ...

“We showed for the first time the feasibility of using multimode propulsion in NASA-relevant lunar missions, particularly with CubeSats,” said aerospace engineering Ph.D. student Bryan Cline.

Once it is launched from the ISS, the CubeSat will drift away into orbit — all on its own. The tiny spacecraft must have its own power generation and its own communications system. Electromagnets will ...

In 2021, NASA ran tests on CubeSat satellites equipped with electrolysis propulsion systems. While they were in low orbit, the satellites fed water from a pint-sized tank into the experimental ...

With some spare solar cells from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, he went down to a local shop and found a 4 X 4 X 4-in. transparent box. “At the time, they put Beanie Babies in it. That was ...

“In the past we’ve worked with JPL [NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory] and launched MarCO – Mars CubeSat One – which was the first interplanetary CubeSat. We didn’t build it, but we helped launch it ...

Engineers have been working to try and salvage the LunaH-Map cubesat mission, hoping to engage its propulsion system and give it a second chance at entering lunar orbit.It may be too late for the ...

Sony CubeSat Fires up Water-Based Engine in Earth Orbit for the First Time Japan's Pale Blue water-based propulsion system successfully completed its initial test on board the nanosatellite.

A Japanese propulsion company developing water-based thrusters is set to test its system on a Sony nanosatellite launched earlier in January. Cubesat that launched on SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will ...

"Omnidea’s electronic propulsion capability will revolutionise the way that small spacecraft are deployed in space,” said Piyal Samara-Ratna, Space Park Leicester’s METEOR centre Principal Engineer.

CubeSats contributed to the Mars Insight lander mission in a launch from California’s Vandenberg Space Force Base in 2018. They’ve also been used to help solar sailing propulsion, technology ...