16 results for "CubeSats"

Firefly Aerospace's Alpha rocket is set to launch eight CubeSats as part of NASA's Educational Launch of Nanosatellites (ELaNa) 43 mission. Originally scheduled for Monday night, the launch faced a...

NASA is gearing up for the launch of two climate science cubesats as part of the Polar Radiant Energy in the Far-Infrared Experiment (PREFIRE) mission. These cubesats aim to capture...

The European Space Agency's Hera mission is set to launch aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral, aiming to study the aftermath of NASA's DART impact on the…

ESA’s Hera mission, a vital follow-up to NASA’s DART impact test on the asteroid Dimorphos, is nearing its October 7 launch. Hera will study the aftermath of the DART collision,…

NASA’s BurstCube satellite, a shoebox-sized CubeSat, has successfully detected its first gamma-ray burst (GRB)—one of the most energetic explosions in the universe. The satellite, which was deployed from the International...

SpaceX has once again demonstrated its leadership in the space industry with the successful launch of 116 satellites aboard its Falcon 9 rocket as part of the Transporter-11 rideshare mission....

NASA's CubeSat Radio Interferometry Experiment, or CURIE, is set to launch on July 9, 2024, with the goal of investigating the origins of radio waves emitted by the sun. This...

Europe is on the brink of a significant milestone as the new heavy-lift Ariane 6 rocket prepares for its long-awaited inaugural flight. This event marks a pivotal moment for European...

A Rocket Lab Electron rocket successfully launched the second of NASA's PREFIRE (Polar Radiant Energy in the Far-InfraRed Experiment) cubesats, marking a significant step in understanding Earth's polar climate dynamics....

Rocket Lab successfully launched a NASA cubesat early on May 25, 2024, as part of the Polar Radiant Energy in the Far-InfraRed Experiment (PREFIRE). This mission aims to study how...

Today’s stories range from the Universe’s Background Starlight is Twice as Bright as Expected to Is Geometry a Language That Only Humans Know?, and much more. “The Galaxy Report” brings...

“Cheops will take exoplanet science to a whole new level,” said Günther Hasinger, the European Space Agency’s director of science about the world’s newest orbiting telescope whose name stands for...

Posted on Jan 20, 2019 The “Planet Earth Report” connects you to the day’s news on the science, technology, discoveries, and events changing our planet and the future of the...

Posted on Nov 26, 2018 “We hit the Martian atmosphere at 12,300 mph (19,800 kilometers per hour), and the whole sequence to touching down on the surface took only six-and-a-half...

Posted on Nov 19, 2018 As the InSight lander descends into Mars’ atmosphere 91 million miles (146 million km) away, it will broadcast simple radio signals called “tones” back to...

Posted on May 16, 2018 in NASA, Solar System, Technology NASA’s Voyager 1 took a classic portrait of Earth from several billion miles away in 1990. Now a class of...