Airbus’ GRACE-FO Satellites Successfully Soar From California … Now the Work Begins
The satellites constantly measure the distance between each other to within a few microns using a microwave system built at NASA’s Jet Propulsion ...
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Brown University Goes ‘Cubist’ and Sends Rhode Island’s First Satellite Soaring
The satellite cost just $3,776 to make. The team bought the parts off the internet ... they built the solar panels from scrap pieces of larger panels.
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NanoRacks Launches 15 SmallSats
The NanoRacks External Cygnus Deployer (ENRCSD) is installed on the exterior of the Cygnus service module with the capability to deploy satellites...
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Iridium’s Sixth Successful Iridium® NEXT Launch With 55 in Orbit, 20 More to Go
"With every successful launch, we are one step closer to Iridium NEXT being fully operational, which officially starts a new age of satellite connectivity.
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SpaceX’s Falcon 9 Successfully Launches Iridium-6 and GRACE-FO Satellites
GRACE-FO’s interferometer will detect changes in distance ... changes on the order of 100 times narrower than a human hair.
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Lunar Comms Satellite Plus Two Smallsats Launched by China
The Chang’e-4 relay satellite, accompanied by two microsatellites, lifted off atop a Long March 4C rocket from the Xichang Satellite Launch Centre at ...
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Arianespace Prepping Two Galileo Satellites for July Launch Aboard an Ariane 5
Arianespace’s upcoming mission — designated Flight VA244 in the company’s launcher family numbering system — follows two previous...
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One Day Delay for NEXT Iridium NEXT and NASA/JPL’s Satellites Launch
NASA and the German Research Center for Geosciences joined forces for GRACE-FO. The satellite will be analyzing various changes occurring within...
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Orbital ATK’s Next Cygnus ISS Resupply Mission with SmallSats Aboard Set for May 20
Orbital ATK’s Cygnus capsule will host multiple payloads sponsored by the ISS National Laboratory (managed by the Center for the Advancement of Science in Space). These...
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Three SmallSats Launched from ISS
Three cubesats carrying Amateur Radio payloads, including one with a V/U linear transponder, were deployed from the International Space Station...
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