With a simple motion, a jack-in-the-box-like spring designed at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory showed the potential of additive manufacturing, also known as 3D printing, to cut costs and complexity ...

NASA has launched a new kind of small spacecraft that could reshape how low-cost missions fly and operate in orbit. At 12:03 a.m. EST on Thursday, December 18, NASA’s DiskSat technology demonstration ...

NASA sees potential value in cubesat swarms collecting data via distributed sensors. Credit: NASA NASA’s first small spacecraft missions were in 1972 and 1973, when it launched Pioneer 10 and 11.

Back in September, a Northrop Grumman Cygnus XL spacecraft headed to the International Space Station (ISS) with crucial supplies and exciting experiments on board. On the manifest was something called ...

Electrical power system (EPS) designs for NASA’s spacecraft have a powerful and essential subsystem that surrounds the electrical power generation, storage, and distribution. It encompasses a large ...

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