{"id":610545,"date":"2026-04-16T10:59:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T10:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/610545\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T10:59:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T10:59:11","slug":"nasa-launches-six-cubesats-to-international-space-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/610545\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA Launches Six CubeSats to International Space Station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Experiments and supplies bound for the International Space Station launched on April 11 as part of the agency\u2019s Northrop Grumman Commercial Resupply Services 24 mission.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the approximately 11,000 pounds cargo that lifted off inside the company\u2019s Cygnus XL spacecraft, NASA\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/kennedy\/launch-services-program\/cubesat-launch-initiative\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">CubeSat Launch Initiative<\/a> (CSLI) launched six CubeSats built by U.S. educational institutions and non-profit organizations. These CubeSats are Coconut, Harvard Undergraduate CubeSat (HUCSat), Low Earth Orbit Platform for Aerospace Research and Development Satellite 1 (LEOPARDSat-1), and three Pleiades Rapid Orbital Verification Experiment System (PROVES) CubeSats: PROVES \u2013 Alcyone, PROVES \u2013 Atlas, and PROVES \u2013 Electra.<\/p>\n<p>Each CubeSat is a small satellite that will deploy into orbit from the space station to conduct its experiments. NASA\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/kennedy\/launch-services-program\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Launch Services Program<\/a>, based at the agency\u2019s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, manages CSLI and manifested these CubeSats on the mission as part of the Educational Launch of Nanosatellites (ELaNa) 58 launch grouping.<\/p>\n<p>Photo credit: SpaceX<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Experiments and supplies bound for the International Space Station launched on April 11 as part of the agency\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":610546,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[64,63,23537,296777,3312,3109,75008,90035,128,285],"class_list":["post-610545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-commercial-resupply","tag-cubesat-launch-initiative","tag-international-space-station-iss","tag-kennedy-space-center","tag-launch-services-program","tag-northrop-grumman-commercial-resupply","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=610545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/610546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=610545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=610545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=610545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}