CubeSats are becoming ever more popular, with about 2,400 total launched so far. However, the small size limits their options for fundamental space exploration technologies, including propulsion. They ...

Engineers and researchers around the world have been putting significant effort into making satellites smaller. Smaller satellites cost less to develop and cost less to put into orbit. The trick is ...

The Space Force is working with propulsion startup Parabilis Space Technologies on a system intended to expand the missions ...

Engineers have until the middle of January to fix the propulsion system on the LunaH-Map spacecraft so it can make it into lunar orbit and carry out its planned mission. Credit: Arizona State Univ.

Howe Industries has submitted a design for a solar-powered steam rocket engine for propelling CubeSats to the National Science Foundation (NSF). With only two moving parts, the ThermaSat engine uses a ...

LOGAN, Utah — Additive Manufacturing (AM) technology used to make parts for high-performance race cars is being applied to the tricky problem of propulsion for cubesats and other small spacecraft that ...

Solar storm warning systems could gain hours of advance time thanks to a completed UK-built magnetometer called MAGIC, which ...

The Luna-H Map cubesat launched on board the Artemis 1 mission in November 2022, but failed to fire its engines shortly after its delayed liftoff. Reading time 2 minutes A shoebox-sized satellite may ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Artist's illustration of Sony's Star Sphere-1 satellite in orbit. A Japanese propulsion company developing water-based thrusters ...

Aerojet Rocketdyne, a GenCorp (NYSE: GY) company, has been awarded a contract from the Flight Opportunities Program Office at Armstrong Flight Test Center to develop propulsion technology for ...

Tiny liquid volcanoes that spray beams of charged particles could make space history next year. They are one of two technologies vying to be the first to let cheap, miniature satellites called ...