10 August 2021
NASA-funded commercial Moon mission to launch from New Zealand
... on an Electron rocket and deploying from Rocket Lab’s Photon spacecraft platform, CAPSTONE is a 25 kilogram (55-pound satellite) CubeSat that will serve as the first spacecraft to test a unique, elliptical lunar orbit. As a precursor for Gateway and...
February 2017
UN strategy lifts capacity for non-spacefaring countries
... the first successful candidates for this programme - a team from the University of Nairobi. The launch of their cubesat later in 2017 will allow Kenya to have a satellite in orbit for the very first time. A fellowship programme...
May 2017
India confirms commercial launch intent
...’s Kickstarter project consisting of 104 one-inch square ‘chip sats’ (known as Sprite satellites) were carried inside a Cubesat onboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. The role of this mission was to develop technology that can be sent deep...
January 2018
SLS ushers transformation of deep space exploration
... fly on the second mission, Exploration Mission-2 (EM-2) in the early 2020s. EM-1 will also provide an opportunity for 13 CubeSat secondary payloads to be deployed in deep space, where they will perform a variety of scientific experiments. During the...
February 2021
Space archaeology - preserving our orbital heritage
... company, AstroAgency, and it draws a large and diverse crowd from all aspects of the space industry - CubeSat developers, university researchers, space law and finance professionals, quantum software designers, solutions architects, robotics experts...
October 2015
Taking AIM with ESA: proposing the first visit to a binary asteroid system
... asteroid body can induce rotational torque – known as the ‘Yarkovsky/YORP effect’. The micro lander and CubeSats will form a network to demonstrate how data can be relayed in space AIM can provide ‘ground-truth’ for...
