Real World: CubeSats – A Satellite Small Enough to Fit in Your Hand
Satellites are expensive to build and expensive to get into space. With all the changes in technology, is there a way to make satellites smaller? Find out just what NASA can pack into a 1U CubeSat, a satellite small enough to fit in your hand.
Background Information
Grades 6 through 12
- NASA CubeSats Overview
- NASA CubeSats at NASA
- NASA What are SmallSats and CubeSats?
- NASA 360 NASA's First Deep Space CubeSats
- NASA CubeSat Launch Initiative
- NASA Deploying Small Satellites From ISS
- NASA JPL Crazy Engineering: CubeSats
- NASA JPL Mars Cube One (MarCO)
- NASA JPL CubeSats and SmallSats
- EarthSky Wall-E and Eva Are Going to Mars, Too
Activities
Grades K through 8
- NASA Climate Kids CubeSat Builder: Build a NASA Spacecraft
Grades 6 through 12