NASA’s Pandora Satellite, CubeSats to Explore Exoplanets, Beyond | Simple Site

Editor’s Note, Jan. 11, 2026: NASA’s Pandora and the NASA-sponsored BlackCAT and SPARCS missions lifted off at 8:44 a.m. EST (5:44 a.m. PST) Sunday, Jan. 11. A new NASA spacecraft called Pandora is awaiting launch ahead of its journey to study the atmospheres of exoplanets, or worlds beyond our solar system, and their stars. Along […]

Category: Ames Research Center, Astrophysics, Astrophysics Pioneers, CubeSats, Exoplanet Science, Exoplanet Transits, Exoplanets, Galaxies, Stars, & Black Holes Research, Goddard Space Flight Center, Infrared Light, James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Kepler / K2, SmallSats Program, Stars, Studying Exoplanets, TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite), The Universe, Visible / Optical Light

Posted on January 9, 2026

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