CubeSats

Ames Research Center

CubeSats

Johnson Space Center

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

Kennedy Space Center

NASA Centers & Facilities

NASA CubeSats Loaded for Launch

Eight CubeSats that are part of NASA’s CubeSat Launch Initiative have been integrated into Firefly Aerospace’s deployment hardware and are ready to be encapsulated into the payload fairing of Firefly’s Alpha rocket. The launch, named “Noise of Summer,” will lift off early this summer from Space Launch Complex 2 at Vandenberg Space Force Base in […]

Posted June 20, 2024

ISS Research

CubeSats

Heliophysics

MinXSS (Miniature X-ray Solar Spectrometer)

Studying the Sun

Science in Space: June 2024 The Sun wields a huge influence on Earth. Its gravity holds our planet in its orbit, and solar energy drives the seasons, ocean currents, weather, climate, radiation belts, and auroras on Earth. The solar wind, a flow of charged particles from the Sun, constantly bombards Earth’s magnetosphere, a vast magnetic […]

Posted June 20, 2024

Space Technology Mission Directorate

Ames Research Center

CubeSats

Game Changing Development Program

General

Small Spacecraft Technology Program

Tech Demo Missions

Swarming for Success: Starling Completes Primary Mission

After ten months in orbit, the Starling spacecraft swarm successfully demonstrated its primary mission’s key objectives, representing significant achievements in the capability of swarm configurations. Swarms of satellites may one day be used in deep space exploration.

Posted May 29, 2024

Ames Research Center

CubeSats

General

Space Technology Mission Directorate

NASA Invites Media to Learn About New Tech Mission Powered by the Sun

A new NASA mission is testing a new way to navigate our solar system by hoisting its sail into space – not to catch the wind, but the propulsive power of sunlight. NASA’s Advanced Composite Solar Sail System is led by the agency’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley.

Posted April 23, 2024

Astrophysics

BurstCube

CubeSats

Gamma Rays

Gamma-Ray Bursts

Goddard Space Flight Center

Gravitational Waves

International Space Station (ISS)

Neutron Stars

Sensing the Universe & Multimessenger Astronomy

NASA’s Tiny BurstCube Mission Launches to Study Cosmic Blasts

NASA’s BurstCube, a shoebox-sized satellite designed to study the universe’s most powerful explosions, is on its way to the International Space Station. The spacecraft travels aboard SpaceX’s 30th Commercial Resupply Services mission, which lifted off at 4:55 p.m.

Posted March 21, 2024

Kennedy Space Center

BurstCube

CubeSats

International Space Station (ISS)

ISS Research

NASA Selects New Round of Candidates for CubeSat Missions to Station

NASA selected 10 small research satellites across eight states to fly to the International Space Station as part of the agency’s efforts to expand education and science opportunities, support technology advancement, and provide for workforce development. These small satellites, or CubeSats, use a standard size and form measured in units.

Posted March 18, 2024

CubeSats

Kennedy Space Center

NASA, DOD Seek Universities to Develop CubeSats for Launch

NASA is collaborating with the U.S. Air Force and U.S.

Posted January 16, 2024

Astrophysics

Black Holes

BurstCube

CubeSats

Galaxies, Stars, & Black Holes

Gamma-Ray Bursts

Neutron Stars