... 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...
...’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...
... 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...
... 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...
... 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...
... of Didymos B - the first radar probe of an asteroid ever performed. Meanwhile, the Swedish/Finnish/Czech/German APEX CubeSat will gather detailed spectral and lidar surveys of the surface of Didymos B, including the identification of ejecta material...