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[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.
Read More[SatNews] The UK Space Agency has opened the payload competition for its United Kingdom Universal Bus Experiment (UKube1), a one year pilot mission in which the UK will launch a miniature satellite that will carry up to three different payloads into space, testing new technologies and carrying out new space research quickly and efficiently.
Read More[SatNEws] Small satellite pioneer Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) has been awarded a grant to commence the design phase of a national technology demonstration satellite called TechDemoSat-1.
Read MoreClyde Space is seeking a Project Manager, someone who is a capable individual who can join a dedicated team of engineers in the development and production of small satellites and their subsystems.
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