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 ...

Team 03: Reconfigurable CubeSat Swarm Above: A physical prototype design (left), as well as a theoretical flight-ready design (right) of CubeSat units with reconfiguration capabilities. The ...

Swarm’s SpaceBee satellites, he noted, are even smaller. “The leaders of the company should know. They’re smart enough” to know this would be a problem, he said.

This networking method was supposed to have been tested by an eight-CubeSat swarm called Edison Demonstration of SmallSat Networks, but EDSN was lost in a launch accident in November 2015.

NASA already has a prototype swarm satellite in orbit, the Hyper-Angular Rainbow Polarimeter CubeSat, which was launched from the International Space Station last year.

Space startup Swarm emerged from stealth mode in an unusual way two years ago when it turned out that it had launched some of its ... cubesat, Federal Communications Commission, Germany, ...

Aerospace startup Swarm Technologies, which infamously launched four satellites without a federal license in January, has received permission from the Federal Communications Commission to launch a ...

SAN FRANCISCO—An asteroid-mining company has unveiled plans for a new mothership spacecraft designed to carry a dozen small probes to explore asteroids, comets, or even the moon. The mothership ...

The ChipSats, called Sprites, forming a swarm of cracker-sized nanosatellites were deployed from the Kicksat-2 CubeSat on March 18, 2019 at an altitude of 300 km (186 mi).

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.