{"id":401342,"date":"2026-04-16T09:19:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T09:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/401342\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T09:19:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T09:19:10","slug":"nasa-launches-six-cubesats-to-international-space-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/401342\/","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":401343,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[1656,121503,61,1658,60,10110,108006,1661,82,247],"class_list":{"0":"post-401342","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-commercial-resupply","9":"tag-cubesat-launch-initiative","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-international-space-station-iss","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-kennedy-space-center","14":"tag-launch-services-program","15":"tag-northrop-grumman-commercial-resupply","16":"tag-science","17":"tag-space"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}