Space robotics startup Gitai says it has successfully completed the demonstration of its in-house developed 16U cubesat, ...

The Taiwan Space Agency (TASA) achieved a milestone on January 15, 2025, when its self-developed CubeSat, PARUS-T1, successfully entered a 515-kilometer low-Earth orbit (LEO) aboard a SpaceX ...

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 ...

We talk about rockets and low Earth orbit (LEO) a lot, but we rarely explain where it is and why it's essential. Let's figure it all out. There's nothing innate about the Earth or its atmosphere ...

Instead of spending $125k on a 10cm cube CubeSat, the PocketQube, a 5cm cube, can be launched to a 700 km orbit for about $20,000. Already, four PocketQubes are scheduled for launch in November to ...

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches the Transporter 12 mission from Vandenberg Space Force Base on Jan 14, 2025. Its payload includes Otter, a Naval ...