“NASA has selected eight university teams to collaborate on developing and demonstrating new technologies and capabilities for small spacecraft. The selected teams will work with engineers and scientists from NASA under a…
Category: Missions
University Students Experiments riding into Space at NASA Wallops August 11
“Experiments developed by undergraduate community college and university students from across the United States will fly into space August 11 as part of an 872 pound payload flying on a NASA two-stage…
Tracking Spacecraft Through the Cosmos Contest
“Musicians, composers and audio buffs are invited to help celebrate 40 years of ESA’s tracking station network. Create some truly cosmic sound and you may win impressive prizes, including a trip to…
Student Satellite Wins Green Light for Station Deployment
“Following more than a year of intense effort channelled into a 10 cm box, the first of ESA’s student satellites to be released from the International Space Station has been accepted for…
Students Start Mapping Cosmic Rays and Solar Wind with LUCID
“A satellite experiment to study cosmic rays and the solar wind that was devised by school students is now successfully collecting data in space. LUCID, the Langton Ultimate Cosmic ray Intensity Detector,…
NASA Launches Suborbital Rocket With Student Experiments
“NASA successfully launched a NASA Terrier-Improved Orion suborbital sounding rocket carrying student experiments with the RockOn/RockSat-C programs at 6 a.m., today. More than 200 middle school and university students and instructors participating…
ESA's Parabolic Flight Opportunities for Students Restart
“The ESA Education Office’s ‘Fly Your Thesis!’ programme is back, after having a short break of three years. The first new flight campaign is planned for late 2016. The deadline for applications…
LISA Pathfinder Prepares For Final Exams
“The summer is coming and that means students across Europe are sitting their final tests. ESA’s LISA Pathfinder, a technology demonstrator that will pave the way for space-based gravitational wave observatories, is…
LightSail Team Prepares for Sail Deployment
“LightSail is almost ready for its moment in the sun. This afternoon, mission managers gave the go-ahead for a manual solar sail deployment as early as Tuesday, June 2 at 11:44 a.m….
NASA Asteroid Redirect Mission App
“Learn from NASA leaders, engineers and scientists about NASA’s Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM), a stepping stone along our path to human pioneering of Mars. ARM will be the first-ever robotic mission to…
CubeSat Initiative Aids Solar Sails in Space
“With help from NASA, a small research satellite to test technology for in-space solar propulsion launched into space Wednesday aboard an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, as…
The CubeSat Challenge
“The goal of this challenge is to design a small satellite frame optimized for additive manufacturing. By using the benefits of design for additive manufacturing (DFAM) principles: Mass distributions and materials can…