November 10, 2020

CUA FPPT Article Featured on Kudos.com

"Analysis of Fiber-Fed Pulsed Plasma Thruster Performance"

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September 02, 2020

CUA Becomes INN Innovation Partner

https://www.innovationnewsnetwork.com/partners/

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August 05, 2020

CUA SmallSat 2020 Overview Presentation

The 2020 Small Sat Conference CUA exhibit booth Overview Presentation and Q&A Session are available on the CUA YouTube channel now!

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June 02, 2020

CUA is Featured in Innovation News Network Article

CU Aerospace is featured in an article "CU Aerospace: Revolutionizing Satellite Technology" in the Innovation News Network's The Innovation Platform Issue 2 , see pp. 24-25 , discussing our five latest innovative micropropulsion systems for micro/nanosatellites.

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October 30, 2019

CUA/UIUC Partnership Continues with DUPLEX Mission

The CUA/UIUC team was recently awarded $1.7 million in new funding from NASA to work on another CubeSat project, the DUPLEX mission. 

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September 30, 2019

CUA Wins NASA Award to Launch its 2nd Satellite

CUA has been selected by NASA as one of 14 American companies as partners whose Tipping Point technologies will help enable the agency's Moon to Mars exploration approach. This means that CUA will launch its second satellite, called DUPLEX, with two CUA thruster systems on board, such that CUA's first satellite, CubeSail , will have a satellite cousin on orbit!

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June 03, 2019

CubeSail mission highlighted in NBC online article

NBC News discusses solar sails , including the CubeSail mission , that could herald a new era of spaceflight in which spacecraft forgo the rocket motors they've relied on for decades.

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April 25, 2019

CubeSail Mission Highlighted in NASA ELaNa XIX Mission Video

NASA recently released a documentary featuring the ELaNa XIX launch on a Rocket Lab Electron rocket and the missions included in this historic launch, including CubeSail. See time stamp 7:12 for details about CubeSail.

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December 14, 2018

CubeSail Has Its Own Twitter Feed!

Follow CubeSail's "personal" Twitter feed! https://twitter.com/CubeSail_CUA

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December 12, 2018

CubeSail is Highlighted on The 21st

Listen to The 21st , Illinois's statewide news talk show to hear about the CubeSail mission from David Carroll and UIUC. CubeSail is discussed at 35:10 in the audio link.

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December 12, 2018

CubeSail Described on WILL Radio

Listen to a description of our CubeSail mission on WILL radio, Illinois Public Media.

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December 12, 2018

CubeSail Launch Featured in News Gazette Article

The News Gazette has written a great feature article about the CubeSail mission and our upcoming launch, set for 10:00 PM CST tonight!!

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December 05, 2018

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December 24, 2017

CubeSail Satellite Bus Engineer Talks with News-Gazette

Dawn Haken, a junior in Electrical Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is the student team lead for the IlliniSat 2 bus which is being used for the CU Aerospace CubeSail mission. She is interviewed by the News-Gazette to discuss mission goals and upcoming launch schedule. Watch the video here: http://www.news-gazette.com/video/2017-12-24/wired-dawn-haken.html

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August 23, 2017

CUA Mentioned in Planetary Society Solar Sailing Missions Overview

CU Aerospace co-founder Victoria Coverstone is quoted in Planetary Society's solar sailing mission update overview.

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February 10, 2016

CUA CubeSail Mission Slated for Launch

The joint CU Aerospace/University of Illinois mission CubeSail is officially manifested for launch in mid-2017. It will launch through the NASA program Educational Launch of Nanosatellites: Project ELaNa  to 85 deg. inclination, 500 km altitude.

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January 08, 2014

BBC Two airs segment highlighting Zero G research flight

The BBC show Stargazing Live tapes on Zero G research flight on which CUA hardware was flown. CubeSail can be seen at 0:52, 0:56, and 3:40 in the YouTube video linked below.

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November 17, 2013

CubeSail hardware tested on Zero G flight

Senior Engineer, Julia Laystrom-Woodard, tests the CubeSail payload hardware on a Zero G research flight.

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September 01, 2013

UltraSail/CubeSail Technology Featured in NASA Tech Briefs

The CU Aerospace/University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign team is featured for their UltraSail/CubeSail technology development in NASA Tech Briefs.

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May 31, 2012

CU Aerospace Featured on Next Big Future

The CU Aerospace CubeSail mission has been featured on the tech blog Next Big Future.

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