Deployment! LightSail Boom Motor Whirrs to Life, Planetary Society “LightSail’s tiny solar sail deployment motor sprung to life Sunday afternoon, marking an important milestone for The Planetary Society’s nail-biting test […]
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LightSail Reboots Itself – Now Ready to Sail
LightSail Team Prepares for Possible Tuesday Sail Deployment, Planetary Society “LightSail is almost ready for its moment in the sun. This afternoon, mission managers gave the go-ahead for a manual […]
Posted inSpace & Planetary Science
Moon Shadow Seen By A Cubesat
AeroCube-4 Captures Images of the Moon’s Shadow “One of Aerospace’s CubeSats captured a photo of the moon’s shadow on Earth’s surface during the solar eclipse that occurred on Nov. 3. […]
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NASA Funds University Smallsats to Spur Innovation
NASA Selects University Teams for New SmallSat Collaborative Projects, NASA “NASA has selected 13 university teams for collaborative projects to develop and demonstrate new technologies and capabilities and spur innovation […]
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Has CubeSats Time Come?
Can CubeSats do quality science? For one group, yes NewSpace Journal “While interest in CubeSats–spacecraft as small as ten centimeters on a side and weighing one kilogram–has grown in recent […]
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NASA Still Can't Get That Metric Stuff Right (update)
NASA Announces Next Opportunity for CubeSat Space Missions “CubeSats are a class of research spacecraft called nanosatellites. The cube-shaped satellites are approximately four inches long, have a volume of about […]
Posted inEducation
Good Things In Small Packages
CU Students to Build Tiny Spacecraft to Observe ‘Space Weather’ Environment “The University of Colorado at Boulder has been awarded $840,000 from the National Science Foundation for students to build […]