CubeSat Launch Initiative

CubeSats

For Colleges & Universities

Learning Resources

Space Operations Mission Directorate

NASA Seeks Student Missions to Send to Space in 2026, Beyond

NASA announced a new round of opportunities for CubeSat, developers to build spacecrafts on that will fly on upcoming launches through the agency’s CSLI (CubeSat Launch Initiative). CubeSats are a class of small spacecraft called nanosatellites. The initiative provides space access to U.S.

Posted August 6, 2024

International Space Station (ISS)

Commercial Resupply

CubeSats

ISS Research

Northrop Grumman Commercial Resupply

NASA Science, Cargo Launch on 21st Northrop Grumman Mission to Station

Following a successful launch of NASA’s Northrop Grumman 21st commercial resupply mission, new scientific experiments and cargo for the agency are bound for the International Space Station. Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus spacecraft, carrying more than 8,200 pounds of supplies to the orbiting laboratory, lifted off at 11:02 a.m.

Posted August 5, 2024

International Space Station (ISS)

Commercial Resupply

CubeSats

ISS Research

Northrop Grumman Commercial Resupply

NASA Sets Coverage for Northrop Grumman’s 21st Station Resupply Launch

Editor’s Note: This media advisory was updated July 31, 2024, to reflect that the launch now is at 11:29 a.m. EDT on Saturday, Aug. 3. NASA, Northrop Grumman, and SpaceX are targeting 11:29 a.m. EDT on Saturday, Aug. 3, for the next launch to deliver science investigations, supplies, and equipment to the International Space Station. […]

Posted July 30, 2024

CubeSats

Missions

NASA Centers & Facilities

NASA CubeSat Launches as Rideshare on ESA’s First Ariane 6 Rocket

NASA launched CURIE (CubeSat Radio Interferometry Experiment) as a rideshare payload on the inaugural flight of ESA’s (European Space Agency) Ariane 6 rocket, which launched at 4 p.m. GFT on July 9 from Europe’s Spaceport, the Guiana Space Center in Kourou, in French Guiana. Designed by a team from the University of California, Berkeley, CURIE […]

Posted July 11, 2024

CubeSats

Goddard Space Flight Center

Heliophysics

Heliophysics Division

Heliophysics Research Program

Science Mission Directorate

SunRISE (Sun Radio Interferometer Space Experiment)

NASA Mission to Study Mysteries in the Origin of Solar Radio Waves

NASA’s CubeSat Radio Interferometry Experiment, or CURIE, is scheduled to launch July 9, 2024, to investigate the unresolved origins of radio waves coming from the Sun.

Posted July 8, 2024

Ames Research Center

CubeSats

Eight CubeSats Lift Off for NASA on Firefly Aerospace Rocket!

As part of NASA’s CubeSat Launch Initiative, Firefly Aerospace launched eight small satellites on July 3 aboard the company’s Alpha rocket. Named “Noise of Summer,” the rocket successfully lifted off from Space Launch Complex 2 at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California at 9:04 p.m. PDT.

Posted July 4, 2024

Ames Research Center

CubeSats

NASA’s ELaNa 43 Prepares for Firefly Aerospace Launch

NASA is readying for the launch of several small satellites to space, built with the help of students, educators, and researchers from across the country, as part of the agency’s CubeSat Launch Initiative.

Posted June 21, 2024

CubeSats

NASA Centers & Facilities