The mission will send up to 1,000 one-gram ash vials into low Earth orbit aboard a Falcon 9 rideshare, with memorial slots priced at $249.

This article is part of The State of Science, a series featuring science stories from public radio stations across the United States. This story, by Michelle Loxton, was originally published by KCLU.

ESA's next technology-testing CubeSat will be fitted with two tiny butane-powered thrusters, making it the agency's first miniature satellite with the capacity to move through space under its own ...

Artist's concept of the Lunar IceCube spacecraft searching for water from lunar orbit. (Morehead State University) A spacecraft the size of a cereal box will soon be hunting for water on the moon.

CubeSat technology on the order of a magnitude smaller and cheaper than conventional planetary science satellites should make its debut in lunar orbit as early as 2017. Although such nano-satellite ...

A Lockheed Martin cubesat being built by University of Southern California students will be deployed to a sun synchronous orbit by a Momentus Vigoride transfer vehicle. Credit: Momentus WASHINGTON — ...

New York, United States, Oct. 26, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Miniature satellites known as CubeSats are much simpler to create, develop, and launch than traditional satellites. By combining different ...

The University of Wurzburg Experimental-4 cubesat, pictured, houses four 160-gram Nano Field Effect Electric Propulsion (NanoFEEP) thrusters from German startup Morpheus Space. Credit: Morpheus Space ...

MembOne of the big challenges in education is getting kids interested in STEM subjects in elementary school and sustaining that interest throughout middle and high school. According to the U.S. Bureau ...

But LunaH-Map could still salvage its water-hunting mission. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A tiny NASA moon probe failed to ...

NASA confirmed late on Sunday that the Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment (CAPSTONE) spacecraft has arrived at its orbit at the Moon. This mission ...