A similar - and quite true - story can be told about the new poster child of the space industry, the CubeSat. Its dimensions were determined by the size of a Beanie Baby.

Another cubesat effort, NanoSwarm, is focused on the study of particles and magnetic fields of airless planetary bodies. Most cubesats have ridden to space as secondary payloads aboard large rockets.

The CubeSat to Study Solar Particles (CuSP) launched as an Artemis I payload on 1:47 AM EST on Nov. 16, 2022. CuSP was deployed from its canister about eight hours after launch.

Research from the Colorado Inner Radiation Belt Experiment (CIRBE) CubeSat is being showcased by Science News. Designed at built at CU Boulder and the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, ...

A standard one-unit (1U) Cubesat measures about 4 inches (10 cm) long, 4 inches wide, and 4 inches high. A single NLAS provides the capability to deploy 24U of Cubesats.

NASA is developing a larger payload adapter for cubesats flying on the next version of the Space Launch System.

CubeSats are in a class of research spacecraft called nanosatellites. The base CubeSat dimensions are 10x10x11 centimeters (about 4x4x4 inches), which equals one Cube, or 1U.

BlueBlocks Montessori envisions this project as the first in a series of annual student-led CubeSat launches, contributing to space research in education and sustainability.

A tiny cubesat cruising through interplanetary space has captured a new glimpse of Mars, just before watching NASA's InSight lander touch down the Red Planet.