U.S. Department of Education Launches Space Mission Challenge for High School Students, Department of Education “Today, the U.S. Department of Education launched CTE Mission: CubeSat, a national challenge to build […]
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Launch Unit Standards for SmallSats Proposed
Aerospace Corporation Policy Paper proposes Launch Unit Standards for SmallSats “The Aerospace Corporation’s Center for Space Policy and Strategy (CSPS) released a new policy paper today that explores the benefits […]
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Yet Another Smallsat Launch Company Appears
SKY7 spots stealthy space startup testing its rocket in Alameda (with video), Sky7 “A lease application filed with the City of Alameda gives some clues about what’s in the works: […]
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Rocket Lab Reveals Its New Kick Stage
Rocket Lab successfully circularizes orbit with new Electron kick stage, Rocket Lab “Rocket Lab, a US aerospace company with operations in New Zealand, has successfully tested a previously unannounced kick […]
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Rocketlab Makes It To Orbit
Rocketlab Places Three Satellites Into Orbit (with video), SpaceRef “Rocketlab conducted its second Electron launch today placing three cubesats into orbit. The launch occurred from the remote M?hia Peninsula in […]
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Trump's DNI Just Discovered Cubesats – And India's PSLV
The US intelligence nominee can’t believe India just launched 104 satellites, Ars Technica “During his confirmation hearing this week, the Trump administration’s nominee for this cabinet-level [Director of National Intelligence] […]
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A Quick Chat With NASA SMD AA Thomas Zurbuchen
Keith’s note: NASA PAO offered news media a chance to ask questions of Thomas Zurbuchen, the new Science Mission Directorate Associate Administrator. The audio of that event should be online […]
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What Is NASA's Venture Class Launch Service Announcement?
NASA to Announce Selections for Small Satellite Launch Contract “NASA will host a news conference at 1 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, Oct. 14, at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in […]
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Cubesat Survives Antares Explosion
Singapore-made device survives rocket explosion, The Straits Times “Last October, scientists at the Centre for Quantum Technologies (CQT), National University of Singapore, were horrified when the Antares rocket exploded just […]
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Deep-Space Exploration by CubeSats Set to Begin
NASA – Lunar IceCube to Take on Big Mission From Small Package “In what scientists say signals a paradigm shift in interplanetary science, NASA has selected a shoebox-size mission to […]