Small Satellite Missions

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NASA’s Starling mission has marked another milestone in spacecraft autonomy by using a new system that determines a satellite’s position in orbit by referencing other objects in space, instead of relying on a navigational…

Aug 17, 2026

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New animations from NASA's PREFIRE mission reveal two years of seasonal temperature swings at the Arctic and Antarctic.

Aug 7, 2026

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A team of NASA-sponsored scientists and engineers has developed a novel approach to observing high-energy particles in the near-Earth space…

Jul 21, 2026

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NASA’s SunRISE (Sun Radio Interferometer Space Experiment) mission will launch on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from the agency’s Kennedy…

Jul 13, 2026

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The R5-S9 (Realizing Rapid, Reduced-cost high-Risk Research project Spacecraft 9) CubeSat, developed by NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, lifted…

Jul 10, 2026

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GRITSS will demonstrate the feasibility of a new technique for improving precision navigation and geodetic measurements.

Jul 9, 2026

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NASA has selected Rocket Lab to provide the launch service for both the agency’s PolSIR (Polarized Submillimeter Ice-cloud Radiometer) and…

Jun 25, 2026

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NASA’s Polylingual Experimental Terminal (PExT), designed to enable interoperability between satellite relay networks, has completed its planned technology demonstration. Given…

Jun 1, 2026

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