The largest solar storm in two decades hit Earth in May 2024. For several days, wave after wave of high-energy charged ...

Key PointsThe May 2024 solar storm created two new temporary belts of high-energy particles surrounding Earth.Such belts have ...

Once in space, they power on. CubeSats usually conclude their missions ... The European Space Agency's solar orbiter, a 4,000 ...

Want to build your own CubeSat but have been put off by the price ... [RG Sat] has designed and built the avionics and electrical power system circuit boards, and is currently testing his sun ...

Researchers have created a 20-gram, self-deployable boom integrated with flexible electronics for use in CubeSats. The boom, ...

Space is hard, especially if you haven’t done it before. A growing number of CubeSats are launched by small, inexperienced teams every year, and a number of them fail due to missing some small ...

Solar energy heats and expands Earth’s outer atmosphere, creating drag that pulls low-orbit satellites downward. Larger satellites can counter this with thrusters; CubeSats like Binar cannot.