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 satell… ...

It’s now feasible to do just that, using only off-the-shelf technology, in a design called a CubeSat. It’ll run you around $50,000. For university, commercial or government projects, this new ...

It’s easily possible to build a Cubesat/PocketQube for cheap, but you can’t be cheap on the launch. That’s easily $10 of thousands that you have to pay to someone for a spot on a launcher.

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

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Sonoma State University students will build a small satellite, dubbed CubeSat, and launch it into space next year as part of NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe. The nearly 4-inch ...