There was a time when building your own satellite and having it placed into orbit would have been a wild dream. Now it is extremely possible, but still not trivial. A CubeSat is a very small ...

MAXWELL is a 6U CubeSat that is part of the Air Force Research Laboratory's University Nanosat Program 9. The team has won phase A of the competition which will provide the satellite with a launch to ...

But they aren't the only way to propel it once it is in orbit. Engineers have developed thrusters ranging from ionized gases to solar sails to propel spacecraft around our solar system. A thruster ...

The platform for the QUBE-II satellite continues to be the Cube-Sat structure already used in QUBE, which enables a cost-effective, standardised and modular design. Due to the enlarged aperture and ...

Case in point: A team of students at Brown University built a CubeSat in under 18 months for less than US$10,000. The ...

Description: The Radio and Laser Path Agnostic Communications Experiment (RALPHIE) is a cube satellite selected for development as a part of the 11th ... RALPHIE is designed to be a 6U cubesat that ...