But if you don’t care about satellite longevity or failure rates, then maybe [RG Sat] is onto something here. Stepping back and looking at the big picture, however, the price of a CubeSat can be ...

There was a time when building your own satellite and having it placed into orbit would have been a wild dream. Now it is extremely possible, but still not trivial. A CubeSat is a very small ...

Case in point: A team of students at Brown University built a CubeSat in under 18 months for less than US$10,000. The ...

But they aren't the only way to propel it once it is in orbit. Engineers have developed thrusters ranging from ionized gases to solar sails to propel spacecraft around our solar system. A thruster ...

Sometimes, it's hard to remember that Earth is constantly being bombarded by literally tons of space debris daily. The larger ...

Researchers in the United Kingdom have tested the perfomance of cadmium telluride solar cells deployed on the AlSat-1N 3U CubeSat satellite from 2016 to 2022. Their findings show the devices ...

The Beesat-1 test satellite launched into space by TU Berlin in 2009 stopped delivering data in 2013. An inventor managed to ...

When generating a quantum key, the channel loss between satellite and ground station is of great importance, among other things. This is to be reduced in QUBE-II by increasing the output aperture of ...

EIRSAT-1, a student-built CubeSat, has been successfully launched into space, officially becoming Ireland's first satellite The student-led project involved more than 50 students from University ...

On Saturday, Dec. 21st, SpaceX launched the Bandwagon-2 rideshare mission from Space Launch Complex 4E at Vandenberg Space ...