Two college students, Snehadeep Kumar and Mohit Kumar Nayak, are building India’s first gamma-ray detecting CubeSat via their ...

South Korea’s state-backed Institute for Basic Science has ordered the first of five cubesats to study Venus from LEO ...

He assigned 4kg to the scientific payload used to sense the asteroid, and around 40% of the CubeSat's mass to other systems, including power generation provided by a HaWK solar array from MMA.

On May 21, 2010, Japan launched the first solar sail into space. Solar sail technology uses light for spacecraft propulsion, but not in the same way that traditional solar panels do.

That seems to be the approach from a team led by Keri Hoadley of the University of Florida, who recently laid out a mission concept for the Ultraviolet Type Ia Supernova CubeSat (UVIa).

Laser pushed sails—ultrathin need reflective structures that are square meters but weight a gram. If the sails and the ...

For the past two years, Saravanan led a group of students monitoring communications of the NASA Advanced Composite Solar Sail System (NASA ACS3) spacecraft, which launched into outer space in April ...

Full Sail University confirmed to WESH 2 on Wednesday that it's implementing a workforce reduction, affecting more than 100 employees across the school. "As part of our efforts to align our ...

The sun roared to life early Tuesday (May 14), unleashing a powerful X-class solar flare from a newly emerging sunspot region AR4087. The eruption peaked at 4:25 a.m. EDT (0825 GMT), triggering ...

Just seven months after construction started on SEG Solar’s new PV cell manufacturing plant on the Indonesian island of Java, the company has announced the successful commissioning of the $480 ...

The transition to clean energy without sufficient domestic manufacturing options has made much of America’s solar infrastructure reliant on parts made by Chinese firms. That has created a ...