{"id":406541,"date":"2026-04-16T06:27:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T20:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?guid=7f7fab31ef702bef5df1cd0443e01f02"},"modified":"2026-04-16T06:27:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T20:27:22","slug":"nasa-launches-six-cubesats-to-international-space-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=406541","title":{"rendered":"NASA Launches Six CubeSats to International Space Station"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\" class=\"hds-media hds-module wp-block-image\">\n<div class=\"margin-left-auto margin-right-auto nasa-block-align-inline\">\n<div class=\"hds-media-wrapper margin-left-auto margin-right-auto\">\n<figure class=\"hds-media-inner hds-cover-wrapper hds-media-ratio-fit \"><a href=\"https:\/\/images-assets.nasa.gov\/image\/KSC-20260411-PH-FMX001_0003_NCommercial%20Resupply%20Mission%20NG-24%20Launch-\/KSC-20260411-PH-FMX001_0003_NCommercial%20Resupply%20Mission%20NG-24%20Launch-~large.jpg?w=1920&#038;h=1280&#038;%23038;fit=clip&#038;%23038;crop=faces%2Cfocalpoint\" rel=\"noopener\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" src=\"https:\/\/images-assets.nasa.gov\/image\/KSC-20260411-PH-FMX001_0003_NCommercial%20Resupply%20Mission%20NG-24%20Launch-\/KSC-20260411-PH-FMX001_0003_NCommercial%20Resupply%20Mission%20NG-24%20Launch-~large.jpg?w=1920&amp;h=1280&amp;fit=clip&amp;crop=faces%2Cfocalpoint\" class=\"attachment-2048x2048 size-2048x2048\" alt=\"Image shows a rocket launching vertically in a morning blue sky with white clouds at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Saturday, April 11, 2026. The launch reflects in a nearby body of water and shrubs. Photo credit: SpaceX\" style=\"transform: scale(1); transform-origin: 50% 50%; object-position: 50% 50%; object-fit: cover;\" block_context=\"nasa-block\" loading=\"eager\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Experiments and supplies bound for the International Space Station launched on April 11 as part of the agency&#8217;s 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\/\"  rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">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 &#8211; Alcyone, PROVES &#8211; Atlas, and PROVES &#8211; 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\"  rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">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><strong><em>Photo credit: SpaceX<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"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. As part of the approximately 11,000 pounds cargo that lifted off inside the company\u2019s Cygnus XL spacecraft, NASA\u2019s CubeSat Launch Initiative (CSLI) launched six CubeSats built by U.S. educational institutions [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16007,20098,15651,15717,15829,17801],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-406541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commercial-resupply","category-cubesat-launch-initiative","category-international-space-station-iss","category-kennedy-space-center","category-launch-services-program","category-northrop-grumman-commercial-resupply"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=406541"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":406553,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406541\/revisions\/406553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=406541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=406541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=406541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}