Most CubeSats weigh less than a bowling ball, and some are small enough to hold in your hand. But the impact these instruments are having on space exploration is gigantic. CubeSats—miniature, agile ...

The Alpha CubeSat team — a student-led group in Cornell’s Space Systems Design Studio that creates spaceflight technology — successfully deployed the world’s first free-flying light sail into Earth’s ...

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Whether discovering exoplanets or measuring the size of an asteroid, cubesats are affordable throughout the space community, even to small startup, private companies and university laboratories. When ...