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The radar component for a CubeSat is being sent to study asteroid Dimorphos has been delivered to ESA for integration with its spacecraft.

NASA announced the end of the LunaH-Map satellite that was supposed to map ice at the south pole of the moon. While the mission missed its mark, a key instrument performed well.

Students from the University of Saskatchewan have sent their own satellite into space. The students involved worked for five years on their RADSAT-SK CubeSat.

Very good, great. what i still find amazing is that as well as the normal big satellites that we've all seen being launched into space, this is also a satellite these days. it's called a cubesat, it comes with popout solar panels and what you do is you pack these into the empty space around the big satellites in the rocket when they go up. so suddenly you don't need to buy your own rocket to get something like this into space. you can put whatever you want inside one of these things but they come with some standard kit, like solar powered batteries and an orientation system to make sure the th...

As well as the normal big satellites that we've all seen being launched into space, this is also a satellite these days. it's called a cubesat, it comes with pop—out solar panels and what you do is, you pack these into the empty space around the big satellites in the rocket when they grow up. so suddenly you don't need to buy your own rocket to get something like this into space. you can put whatever you want inside one of these things but they come with some standard kit, like solar powered batteries and an orientation system to make sure the things always pointing in the right direction. a...