CubeSats have a lot of advantages. They are small, inexpensive, and easily reproducible. But those advantages also come with significant disadvantages—they have trouble linking into broader ...

JOHANNESBURG — German launch startup Isar Aerospace has signed a contract with OroraTech to launch the company’s wildfire monitoring cubesat constellation. Isar Aerospace is developing its two-stage ...

The H.E.R.M.E.S. constellation has been funded by the Italian Space Agency; its task is to monitor the sky and detect events such as gamma ray bursts, alerting scientists in real time The President of ...

Tim Neilsen, program manager for SunRISE at SDL, discusses the design of the cubesat constellation at an Aug. 8 briefing. Credit: SmallSat/Allison Bills LOGAN, Utah — The Space Dynamics Laboratory ...

Lockheed Martin is looking to give diminutive CubeSats a pretty big job – regularly updating existing satellite constellations in orbit. Lockheed Martin’s IN-space Upgrade Satellite System (LINUSS) is ...

Kuva Space of Finland has raised €16.6 million ($17.6 million) in funding to start building and launching a hyperspectral cubesat constellation. The funding will also be used to accelerate development ...

Gitai wants to ramp up production of small satellites for constellations. Credit: Gitai Space robotics startup Gitai says it has successfully completed the demonstration of its in-house developed 16U ...

Visit NAP.edu/10766 to get more information about this book, to buy it in print, or to download it as a free PDF. This report examines the current state and science potential of CubeSats—defined by ...

A constellation of cubesats fitted with special detectors could sniff out nuclear weapons hidden on satellites launched by ...