NASA Partners With Hawaii — Hula In Space?
NASA and the State of Hawaii agreed to collaborate in a variety of activities involving small satellite development, advanced aviation, space exploration, education and science.
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CU-Boulder — Cubesat Launches By NASA Set For November
A tiny communications satellite designed and built by University of Colorado at Boulder undergraduates has been selected as one of three university research satellites to be launched into orbit in November as part of a NASA space education initiative.
Read MoreIET Appleton Lecture 2010 — Sir Sweeting’s Small Satellites — Big Future
Professor Sir Martin Sweeting will deliver his address at the IET Appleton Lecture 2010 — Small Satellites — Big Future, to be held at Savoy Place, London, on January 19.
Read MoreThe NASA Nod For FASTSAT
NASA has partnered with Dynetics and the Von Braun Center for Science and Innovation, or VCSI, both in Huntsville, Alabama, to successfully complete environmental testing of the Fast, Affordable Science and Technology Satellite, or FASTSAT- HSV01.
Read MoreSanswire Sending STS-111 Skyward In Orlando
Sanswire Corp. (OTC.BB:SNSR), through its Joint Venture Sanswire-TAO Corp., announced an agreement with Orlando Sanford International Airport (SFB) to publicly unveil and demonstrate the STS-111 Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), their new commercial, mid altitude, multi-day duration, lighter-than-air platform designed to rapidly provide persistent surveillance capabilities and to work in tandem with other currently deployed UAVs in various domestic and overseas operations.
Read MoreSpecial — Shrinking Swedish Satellites In Space!
AAC Microtec in Sweden tests miniaturized satellite systems in space, and for the second time in 2009 they will fly their revolutionary microsystem-based components in space.
Read MoreDo Not Swat These Intelligent Israel Aerospace Mosquito Micro UAVs
(IsraelNN.com) Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) revealed a unique hand-launched unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) at an aeronautics conference earlier this month. The ultra-light UAV, called the Mosquito, was developed in conjunction with the Ministry of Defense for use by combat units in gathering field intelligence.
Read MoreIt’s a First! Swiss Satellite In Space — This Cube Isn’t Cheese
It's official — The date of the first ever Swisscube satellite launch is planned for next Wednesday September 23 according to the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO); liftoff is expected at 8:23 a.m., Swiss time.
Read MoreSwiss Enjoy Airglow Using Low Cost Cubes
Students at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland have built the first all-Swiss cube satellite to study the upper atmosphere and test low-cost positioning system and have turned to ISRO to put it in orbit.
Read MoreIt Takes A CubeSat Constellation…
Clyde Space, among others, fully supports the QB50 initiative, which is an international network of 50 CubeSats for multi-point, in-situ measures in the lower thermosphere and re-entry.
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