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Small Satellites 2021 (Virtual Conference)
Small Satellites Conference 2021
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Toast-shaped ThinSats attract educational and government customers
ThinSats, the toast-shaped miniature satellites designed primarily as teaching tools, have attracted Small Business Innovation Research funding from NASA and the U.S. Space Force.

NASA Astrophysics Division embraces cubesats and smallsats
SAN FRANCISCO – Early next year, NASA plans to select a maximum of three Astrophysics Pioneers missions, investigations with a maximum price tag of $20 million, Michel Garcia, NASA Astrophysics Division smallsats lead program scientist, said at …

Aerospace Corp. seeks to license laser communications
The Aerospace Corp. is working to license commercially a laser communications subsystem that downlinked data at a rate of 200 megabits per second from three-unit cubesats.

German cubesats to showcase formation flight technology
The four-satellite NetSat mission launched Sept. 28 on a Russian Soyuz rocket is designed to showcase technology for formation flight.

NanoAvionics triples revenue and expands product line
Revenues for Lithuanian Nanosatellite manufacturer NanoAvionics tripled in the last 12 months as the company signed contracts with startups and industry veterans.

ExoTerra quadruples production capacity to meet government, commercial demand
ExoTerra Resources, a Colorado firm focused on propulsion and in-situ resource utilization, is preparing to quadruple production capacity to meet government and commercial demand.

Lockheed Martin teams with USC and Momentus on cubesat program
USC students will build the satellites and integrate them with Lockheed Martin’s SmartSat mission payload.

Exolaunch and NanoAvionics sign contracts for SpaceX flights
German launch services provider Exolaunch announced contracts June 29 with Lithuanian nanosatellite manufacturer NanoAvionics to integrate two cubesats on SpaceX’s rideshare missions.

D-Orbit preps for in-orbit transportation business with upcoming Arianespace and SpaceX launches
Bruno Carvalho, D-Orbit’s vice president of business development, said the company hopes to launch one of its InOrbit Now (ION) propulsive cubesat deployers every two to three months after proving out the system and lining up customers.

NanoAvionics to build two signal-mapping cubesats for Dutch-Norwegian program
The satellites will weigh no more than 10 kilograms and are scheduled to launch in the second quarter of 2022.

NASA selects space science cubesat mission
NASA announced March 30 it will fund the development of a cluster of six cubesats that will fly in formation above geostationary orbit to study solar storms.

Students integrate cubesat before coronavirus shuts school
Boston University students and professors spent a decade developing what they affectionately call the Toaster. It’s a six-unit cubesat to detect changes in Earth’s magnetic field caused by space weather.

Sen hires NanoAvionics to build EarthTV satellites
Sen, a British startup, awarded Lithuanian satellite manufacturer NanoAvionics a contract to build five nanosatellites to capture ultra-high-definition video from space.

Kleos Space borrows $3.7 million while awaiting first launch
Radio-frequency-mapping startup Kleos Space on Feb. 18 said it received a $3.4 million loan from Dubai-based Winance to keep the company “well funded” while it awaits the launch of its first satellites.