The winners are in for the GrabCad CubeSat Challenge, which asked designers to rethink the way that CubeSats are built. These tiny 10 cm square satellites are the hot thing in orbit, and the ...

Engineers have until the middle of January to fix the propulsion system on the LunaH-Map spacecraft so it can make it into lunar orbit and carry out its planned mission. Credit: Arizona State Univ.

WASHINGTON — Engineers are troubleshooting thruster problems on a cubesat launched last month to search for water ice at the moon, the latest in a series of technical issues among small satellites ...

The long-awaited detection of gravitational waves has opened up a whole new world of astronomy. One of the key efforts is now to tie signals across multiple domains—for example, a gravitational wave ...

From India's trial missions for its first crewed spaceflight to the UAE's attempt at achieving a landing on the moon, 2026 ...

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. (Video, embedded ...

After a decade-long project, the Yale Undergraduate Aerospace Association, or YUAA, is gearing up to launch a satellite into outer space in the coming year. Through their CubeSat project, YUAA aims to ...

No audio available for this content. A miniature CubeSat has become the first satellite to perform Galileo-based position fixes in orbit using a commercial satnav receiver. News from the European ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A spacecraft the size of a cereal box will soon be hunting for water on the moon. NASA has given ...

Everyone loves a story about a small but daring character that overcomes all obstacles to become a hero at just the right moment. This week saw one such story play out in dramatic detail—and it was ...

When NASA's latest Cygnus cargo mission to the International Space Station (ISS) lifts off on Monday, its manifest of experiments and general supplies will include three CubeSats, including the first ...