CubeSats usually conclude their missions by burning up as they enter the atmosphere after their orbits slowly decay. Case in ...

Now it is extremely possible, but still not trivial. A CubeSat is a very small satellite that can hitch a ride with a bigger satellite or get tossed out of a friendly space station. This week’s ...

Want to build your own CubeSat but have been put off by the price? There may be a solution in the works — [RG Sat] has challenged himself to design and build one for less than $1,000.

CubeSats are changing the way we think about space exploration. By lowering the barriers to entry, they have turned space ...

A similar - and quite true - story can be told about the new poster child of the space industry, the CubeSat. Its dimensions were determined by the size of a Beanie Baby. The cuddly toy was all ...

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches the Transporter 12 mission from Vandenberg Space Force Base on Jan 14, 2025. Its payload includes Otter, a Naval ...

The India Meteorological Department (IMD) plans to improve the accuracy of its weather forecasts by leveraging data from ...

The Taiwan Space Agency (TASA) achieved a milestone on January 15, 2025, when its self-developed CubeSat, PARUS-T1, successfully entered a 515-kilometer low-Earth orbit (LEO) aboard a SpaceX rocket in ...

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Weinzierl, Matthew, Mehak Sarang, and Brendan L. Rosseau. "Spire, the CubeSat Revolution, and the Government as a Space Data Customer." Harvard Business School Case 722-013, September 2021. (Revised ...

Enter BlackCAT, a mission concept initially proposed in 2018. It is designed as a 6U Cubesat with one particular detector for soft X-ray detection. Soft X-rays are the lower-energy versions of ...

MAXWELL is a 6U CubeSat that is part of the Air Force Research Laboratory's University Nanosat Program 9. The team has won phase A of the competition which will provide the satellite with a launch to ...