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

July 8, 2024

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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. Scientists first noticed these radio waves decades ago, and over the years they’ve determined the radio waves come from solar flares and giant eruptions on the Sun called coronal…
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Ames Research Center, CubeSat Launch Initiative, cubesats, johnson space center, Launch Services Program, Small Satellite Missions, Tech Industry, Tech News

NASA’s ELaNa 43 Prepares for Firefly Aerospace Launch

June 21, 2024

Elyna N. Niles-Carnes

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. The ELaNa 43 (Educational Launch of Nanosatellites 43) mission includes eight CubeSats flying on Firefly Aerospace’s Alpha rocket for its “Noise of…
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NASA CubeSats Loaded for Launch

June 20, 2024

Laura Aguiar

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…
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Swarming for Success: Starling Completes Primary Mission

May 29, 2024

Tara Friesen

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. An autonomous network of spacecraft could self-navigate, manage scientific experiments, and execute maneuvers to respond to environmental changes…
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NASA Invites Media to Learn About New Tech Mission Powered by the Sun

April 22, 2024

Rachel Hoover

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. The microwave oven-sized CubeSat is scheduled to launch aboard a…
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NASA Selects New Round of Candidates for CubeSat Missions to Station

March 18, 2024

Elyna N. Niles-Carnes

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. One unit (1U) is 10x10x11…
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NASA Selects Universities to Support Small Spacecraft Technologies

December 8, 2023

Gianine Figliozzi

Eight U.S. university teams are partnering with NASA to advance technologies for small spacecraft, increasing their capability to support the agency’s science and exploration missions within the Earth, cislunar, and deep space domains. The University SmallSat Technology Partnerships (USTP) initiative within NASA’s Small Spacecraft Technology (SST) program selected the eight teams from proposals received in response to…
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NASA’s Educational CubeSats: Small Satellites, Big Impact

November 30, 2023

Jason Costa

Despite their small size, the satellites launching through NASA’s CubeSat Launch Initiative (CSLI) missions have a big impact, creating access to space for many who might not otherwise have the opportunity. One recent mission tells the story of four teams of researchers and engineers who conceived, built, launched, and collected data from these shoebox-sized satellites,…
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Follow NASA’s Starling Swarm in Real Time

October 23, 2023

Arezu Sarvestani

NASA’s Starling CubeSats are zipping through low Earth orbit in the agency’s latest test of robotic swarm technologies for space. The four Starling spacecraft, launched in July 2023, are testing a group of small satellites ability to coordinate and cooperate independently without real-time updates from mission control. NASA invites the public to follow the Starling…
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NASA Announces Launch Services for Pair of Space Weather Satellites

September 29, 2023

Jennifer M. Dooren

NASA has selected SpaceX of Hawthorne, California, and its Falcon 9 rocket to provide the launch service for the agency’s TRACERS (Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites) mission.
Read more: NASA Announces Launch Services for Pair of Space Weather Satellites

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Category: Small Satellite Missions

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

NASA’s ELaNa 43 Prepares for Firefly Aerospace Launch

NASA CubeSats Loaded for Launch

Swarming for Success: Starling Completes Primary Mission

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

NASA Selects New Round of Candidates for CubeSat Missions to Station

NASA Selects Universities to Support Small Spacecraft Technologies

NASA’s Educational CubeSats: Small Satellites, Big Impact

Follow NASA’s Starling Swarm in Real Time

NASA Announces Launch Services for Pair of Space Weather Satellites

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