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

But tucked away beneath the European Service Module and the ULA-built Interim Cryogenic Propulsion Stage (ICPS; the upper stage of the Space Launch System rocket) there are 10 CubeSats, which will ...

“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.

The tiny spacecraft must have its own power generation and its own communications system. Electromagnets will help the spacecraft push against the Earth’s magnetic field, Maruca said, as the CubeSat ...

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 ...

NASA was skeptical of cubesats at first. The message from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory was: “‘Oh, don’t mess with that,’ Twiggs says, adding: I’m kind of glad.

The story of the CubeSat started with a big problem for one Cal Poly professor. “It was actually a critical problem for us, but it was a problem that nobody else cared about,” said Jordi Puig-Suari, ...

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.

"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 ...