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[SatNews]A team of Michigan college students has won a competition to have the U.S. Department of Defense launch their custom-built satellite into orbit, officials said.
Read More[SatNews] NASA has selected 20 small satellites, including two from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., to fly as auxiliary payloads aboard rockets planned to launch in 2011 and 2012.
Read More[SatNews] Space researchers at the University of Surrey and Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL) have developed ‘STRaND-1’, a satellite containing a smartphone payload that will be launched into orbit around the Earth later this year.
Read More[SatNews] Friday, Jan. 21 at 10:00 a.m. EST, engineers at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., confirmed that the NanoSail-D nanosatellite deployed its 100-square-foot polymer sail in low-Earth orbit and is operating as planned.
Read More[SatNews] Engineers at Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., confirmed that the NanoSail-D nanosatellite ejected from Fast Affordable Scientific and Technology Satellite, FASTSAT.
Read More[SatNews] Launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, December 8, 2010, as secondary payloads on a Space Exploration (SpaceX) Technologies, Inc., Falcon 9 launch vehicle, two NRL Naval Center for Space Technology designed and built nano-satellites have been deployed to evaluate nano-satellites as a platform for experimentation and technology development.
Read More[SatNews] A most disappointing realization has begun to sink in at NASA that the NanoSail-D project that was part of the FASTSAT satellite project on December 6th may not be as successful as initially believed.
Read More[SatNews] On Dec. 6 at 1:31 a.m. EST, NASA, for the first time, successfully ejected a nanosatellite from a free-flying microsatellite.
Read More[SatNews] The Organism/Organic Exposure to Orbital Stresses, or O/OREOS, nanosatellite managed by NASA's Ames Research Center, successfully launched at 5:25 p.m. PST on Friday, Nov. 19, 2010, from Alaska Aerospace Corporation's Kodiak Launch Complex on Kodiak Island, Alaska.
Read More[SatNews] Japan is developing a low-cost surveillance satellite to aid disaster relief and to engage in other uses, as the country looks to expand its reach into emerging markets — this according to government sources.
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