cubesats
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NASA’s Solar Sail Makes First Contact From Space Before Stretching Its Enormous Wings
Nearly a week after launching to space, a microwave-sized cubesat phoned home for the first time as it prepares to embark on its mission of sailing through low Earth orbit. NASA’s Advanced Composite Solar Sail System (ACS3) contacted ground operators on Tuesday at 2:30 a.m. ET as it passed over the ground hub located at…
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NASA’s Pioneering Lunar Probe Snaps Its First Image of the Moon
The NASA-funded CAPSTONE mission is the little probe that could. Despite a rough start to its journey, the cubesat was able to capture a hauntingly beautiful view of the Moon from its unique orbit and test a Moon GPS system for the first time.
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Engineers Might Have to Put a Struggling Artemis CubeSat Out of Its Misery
A shoebox-sized satellite may soon meet its untimely death after failing to fire its thrusters. The cubesat may have been compromised as it excessively waited for launch on board NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket in advance of the Artemis 1 mission last year.
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Student-Designed Cubesat to Feature Inflatable ‘Beachball’ Antenna
In an attempt to optimise communication in space across vast distances, a team of researchers from the University of Arizona will rely on a unique antenna for CatSat, a small satellite that will study the ionosphere. The antenna resembles a space-age beachball that can beam information to Earth at high speeds.