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 ...

NASA said the primary missions of the Starling satellite swarm have been met ten months after the mission was ... And that's exactly what the Starling CubeSat spacecraft set out to do ten ...

The National Science Foundation is highlighting the SWARM-EX CubeSats. The three cube satellite project, formally titled Space Weather Atmospheric Reconfigurable Multiscale Experiment (SWARM-EX), is ...

The alternative is an aggregated swarm, in which separate CubeSats rendezvous and dock together, potentially with a larger central hub, to form a larger modular spacecraft that can autonomously ...

Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB) (“Rocket Lab” or “the Company”), a global leader in launch services and space systems, today announced it has sign ...

StarFOX is an autonomous satellite swarm that scientists hope to send beyond our planet's orbit someday. ... They outfitted each of StarFOX's four cubesats with a pair of star tracker cameras.

Swarm has developed a tiny “SpaceBee” satellite, which measures just 11 cm (4.33 inches) by 11 cm by 2.8 cm (1.1 inches). That makes it a quarter the size of a standard CubeSat satellite, ...

The space agency itself is experimenting with water-based thrusters on board a swarm of CubeSats for NASA’s Pathfinder Technology Demonstrator, the first in a series of missions launched aboard ...

A first-ever test of autonomous navigation for a swarm of satellites was carried out in orbit. The concept of swarms — in which a group of smaller satellites work together — is an emerging ...