Proba-2 — Story of the Smallest Satellite Sets Out On a Journey to Russia
Proba-2, one of the smallest satellites ESA has ever built for space, is about to leave its Belgian homeland.
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It’s the Yeast They Could Do As PharmaSat Takes Off and Packs a Wallops
More 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 MoreScrubs Are For Operating Room Professionals — Hopefully Not For The Next TacSat-3 Launch
The 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 MoreU.S. Army’s First SatDevelopment Project Since 1960 Gets NanoSats From Miltec
Ducommun 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 MoreNASA’s Nanosatellite Flies For Fungus
The 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.
Read MoreCOM DEV Successfully Delves Into AIS With Nanosat
COM DEV International Ltd. (TSX:CDV) has announced that its first experimental satellite, NTS, has successfully completed one year in orbit, validating COM DEV's high-performance detection capability for its advanced space-based AIS (Automatic Identification System) technology.
Read MoreSumbandilaSat: From Sub To Space
Wiseman Khuzwayo of Business Report & Independent Online (Pty) Ltd. is reporting that South Africa expects to launch its second microsatellite into low Earth orbit by June, after several cancellations.
Read MorePiggybacking Anusat Will Launch In Early April
India's first student-made satellite will take off from Sriharikota on either April 5th or 6th, riding piggyback on ISRO's Risat satellite until it separates and flies into its own designated orbit.
Read MoreCanadian Ship Tracking Nanosat Timely Success
Canada's first foray into ship tracking from space has been tremendously successful — nanosatellite Tracking of Ships (NTS), otherwise known as Canadian Advanced Nanospace eXperiment 6 (CanX-6), a 6.5 kg, 20-cm cubical satellite, was conceived in October 2007, completed only six months later in March 2008, and launched on April 28, 2008 on board Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) C9 from India.
Read MoreDemo Boeing Picosat Attains 10,000 Orbits
The Boeing [NYSE: BA] demo picosatellite CubeSat TestBed 1 (CSTB1) has surpassed 10,000 Earth orbits since its launch on April 17, 2007.
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