A multidisciplinary team of undergraduate students from three different universities has designed and built a mini satellite, known as a CubeSat, that will launch into space to gather data in ...

IOWA CITY, Iowa — A pair of NASA spacecraft led by a University of Iowa researcher are set to launch into orbit before the end of July to study a mysterious process in space that could help scientists ...

A multidisciplinary team of undergraduate students from three different universities has designed and built a mini satellite, ...

Satellites in geosynchronous orbit are far away, at 22,000 miles, they are usually big and costly, and they usually perform important duties. So, when billion-dollar communications or weather ...

Advanced composite materials and advances in high-rate production of composite structures are reshaping the landscape of satellite design and manufacturing. Traditional satellite development has long ...

Mission-critical hardware used in space is not supposed to fail at all, because lives may be lost in addition to resources, availability, performance, and budgets. For space applications, failure can ...

On October 31, 2025, Elon Musk unveiled SpaceX’s plan to launch data centers into orbit using the next generation of Starlink ...

Japan has just launched the first-ever wooden satellite to space. The LignoSat cubesat was sent skyward by a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Monday and arrived at ...

Space is a popular frontier these days. A record number of 2781 satellites were deployed in 2023, according to the Satellite Industry Association’s latest report, and by the end of the year there were ...

The UK should act now to secure its place at the forefront of the new global race for space, a report ‘The Space Economy: Act ...

ISRO’s LVM3-M5 mission marks another leap in India’s space journey. Carrying the GSAT-7R satellite—built to strengthen the Indian Navy’s communication ...

Urban environments have become living laboratories where human design choices directly influence the climate we experience ...