Want to build your own CubeSat but have been put off by the price? There may be a solution in the works — [RG Sat] has challenged himself to design and build one for less than $1,000.

Now it is extremely possible, but still not trivial. A CubeSat is a very small satellite that can hitch a ride with a bigger satellite or get tossed out of a friendly space station. This week’s ...

and LightSail-2, a mission operated by the nonprofit Planetary Society, followed suit in July 2019. NASA's Near-Earth Asteroid Scout cubesat launched as a rideshare on the Artemis 1 moon mission ...

LightSail 2, a cubesat deployed in 2019, used a 32 square meter sail to increase its speed and gain altitude over the course of a couple of years in orbit, while the Japan Space Agency's IKAROS ...

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 ...