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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 MoreStudents 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 MoreClyde 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.
Read MoreInterorbital has released the TubeSat Personal Satellite (PS) Kit, a low-cost alternative to the CubeSat with three-quarters of the mass (0.75-kg) and volume of a CubeSat, but with plenty of room for most experiments or functions.
Read MoreMicrosat Systems Canada Inc. (MSCI), (formerly the Space Division of Dynacon Inc.), Canada’s designer and builder of the Multi Mission Microsatellite Bus technology (MMMB), and innovator of Reaction Wheel attitude control system products, announces the sixth birthday of the MOST Microsatellite — Canada’s First Space Telescope.
Read MoreProba-2, one of the smallest satellites ESA has ever built for space, is about to leave its Belgian homeland.
Read MoreMore good news from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility on Tuesday when NASA's PharmaSat nanosatellite successfully launched at 7:55 p.m. EDT and the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport located at Wallops Island,
Read MoreThe U.S.A.F. will attempt to launch a Minotaur I rocket carrying with it the Air Force Research Laboratory’s TacSat-3 satellite, NASA’s PharmaSat microsatellite and NASA’s CubeSat Technology Demonstration experiments — this is the fourth attempt to launch the rocket from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility Pad 0B and it will occur on May 19th during a four hour long launch window, starting at 7:35 p.m. EDT. A backup date of May 20th has also been established, should such become necessary. The launch windows are identical for both days.
Read MoreDucommun Incorporated (NYSE: DCO) has announced that their Miltec Corporation (Miltec) subsidiary delivered flight-ready nanosatellites to the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command/Army Forces Strategic Command (USASMDC/ARSTRAT) in Huntsville, Alabama on April 28, 2009.
Read MoreThe greatest thing since sliced bread may now be NASA's small satellite that is about the size of a loaf of bread, weighs about 10 pounds, and could help scientists better understand how effectively drugs work in space.
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