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NASA’s New Dellingr Spacecraft Baselined for Pathfinding CubeSat Mission to Van Allen Belts
May 1, 2018 – A new CubeSat mission — GTOSat — will not only provide key observations of the environmentally forbidding radiation belts that encircle Earth, it will provide initial steps of a new technological vision.

Small Satellites to Get their Own Ride to Space
April 27, 2018 – NASA is investing in a new commercial market that could answer the demand for affordable access to space for small satellites, including CubeSats. The agency’s Venture Class Launch Services brings together a smaller class of rockets with satellites small enough to hold in your hands.

NASA Postpones Near-Earth Asteroid Scout Media Opportunity
April 24, 2018 – NASA is delaying the Near-Earth Asteroid Scout solar sail deployment test and media event previously scheduled for Thursday, April 26. During the final assembly phase, the NEA Scout team discovered an issue with the deployment boom. The team is working to prepare a replacement boom. As soon as the issue is resolved, the team will provide a revised test date.

NASA Engineers Dream Big with Small Spacecraft
April 19, 2018 – Many of NASA’s most iconic spacecraft towered over the engineers who built them: think Voyagers 1 and 2, Cassini or Galileo — all large machines that could measure up to a school bus.

How a NASA Team Turned a Smartphone into a Satellite Business
April 19, 2018 – Satellites aren’t small or cheap. The Solar Dynamics Observatory launched by NASA in 2010 weighs about 6,800 pounds and cost $850 million to build and put into orbit.

Astrophysics CubeSat Demonstrates Big Potential in a Small Package
April 12, 2018 – The ASTERIA satellite, which was deployed into low-Earth orbit in November, is only slightly larger than a box of cereal, but it could be used to help astrophysicists study planets orbiting other stars.

NASA Selects New Technologies for Flight Tests for Future Space Exploration
April 11, 2018 – Through NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate’s Flight Opportunities program, six promising space technologies have been selected to be tested on commercial low-gravity-simulating aircraft and suborbital rockets. The opportunity to fly on these vehicles helps advance technologies closer to practical use by taking them from a laboratory environment to the real world.

Orbital Testing Begins for Advanced Small Spacecraft Communications
March 29, 2018 – NASA Small Spacecraft Technology Program’s Integrated Solar and Reflectarray Antenna, or ISARA, and Optical Communications and Sensor Demonstration, or OCSD, spacecraft recently completed systems checkout and have moved into the operational phase to demonstrate a number of technology firsts.

NASA Awards $96 Million to U.S. Small Businesses for Tech Research, Development
March 15, 2018 – NASA has selected 128 proposals from American small businesses to advance research and technology in Phase II of its 2017 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. These selections support NASA’s future space exploration missions, while also benefiting the U.S. economy.

NASA Outlines New Lunar Science, Human Exploration Missions
March 8, 2018 – NASA is focused on an ambitious plan to advance the nation’s space program by increasing science activities near and on the Moon and ultimately returning humans to the surface.

NASA Seeks Small Business Innovation Research for Future Missions
January 11, 2018 – NASA is looking to small businesses and research institutions for innovative technologies that could have significant potential for successful transition into NASA mission programs and other commercial markets. This year, through NASA’s Small Business and Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase I solicitation, proposals for research, development and technology demonstrations can be submitted until March 9.

2017: A Year of Progress and Poised for the Future
December 27, 2017 – Throughout 2017, NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate (STMD) made noteworthy progress in maturing and demonstrating technologies to bolster America’s space agenda, while setting the stage for vital advancements within the next several years.

JPL Deploys a CubeSat for Astronomy
December 7, 2017 – Tiny satellites called CubeSats have attracted a lot of attention in recent years. Besides allowing researchers to test new technologies, their relative simplicity also offers hands-on training to early-career engineers.

NASA Selects University Partners for Small Spacecraft Collaboration
December 1, 2017 – NASA has selected nine university teams to collaborate on the development and demonstration of new technologies and capabilities for small spacecraft. Beginning this winter, each university team will work with NASA engineers and scientists on two-year projects.

A Proving Ground in Space
November 28, 2017 – Dellingr, a shoebox-sized spacecraft built to show that CubeSat platforms could be cost-effective, reliable and capable of gathering highly robust science, was released from the International Space Station on Nov. 20, 2017. This image shows the release of Dellingr, which NASA specifically developed to provide high-quality science data on a small platform.

NASA to Test Advanced Space Wireless Network and Device for Returning Small Spacecraft to Earth
November 22, 2017 – NASA launched the Technology Educational Satellite, or TechEdSat-6, to the International Space Station on Orbital ATK’s Cygnus spacecraft from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia on Nov. 12. This bread loaf-sized satellite is part of a continuing series to demonstrate the “Exo-Brake” parachute device, advanced communications and wireless sensor networks.

NASA Is Sending E. coli to Space for Astronaut Health
November 21, 2017 – Ever wonder what would happen if you got sick in space? NASA has sent bacteria samples into low-Earth orbit to help find out.

Inside EcAMSat, NASA’s Orbiting Mini-Lab for Bacteria
November 21, 2017 – This experiment, called EcAMSat – the E. coli Anti-Microbial Satellite – is a small satellite containing a miniature biology lab, developed and constructed at NASA’s Ames Research Center, in California’s Silicon Valley. EcAMSat is taking E. coli into low-Earth orbit to conduct a science investigation aimed at improving astronaut health.

NASA CubeSat Missions: Pushing the Boundaries of Technology
November 13, 2017 – NASA’s Small Spacecraft Technology Program is on the countdown clock to advance communications and proximity maneuvering capabilities for CubeSats with two separate technology demonstration missions.

NASA Team Studies CubeSat Mission to Measure Water on the Moon
November 9, 2017 – A team of NASA scientists wants to draw a more complete picture of where water exists on the Moon and whether it migrates across the lunar surface, including in the permanently shadowed regions that haven’t seen sunlight in perhaps a billion years or more.

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