Video Gallery
More media coverage of every step of our journey.
Laser Sailing to the Stars: Alpha CubeSat w/ Josh Umansky-Castro [Carl Sagan's 90th Birthday]
"A talk from last November featuring a spacecraft launching TODAY to the International Space
Station!"
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Our spacecraft On The ISS!
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station had a lot of fun testing our LightSail
deployer. These tests are helping us understand how to improve sail deployer stability in
microgravity, an essential step toward future solar sailing missions that could one day journey
far beyond Earth.
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NSF Live: TINY SATS - NASA’s CubeSat Launch Initiative and Beyond
Hear from NASA Marshall's Deputy Chief Technologist and members of the Alpha team as they
discuss the role of CubeSats in technological innovation, and learn more about Alpha CubeSat in
the new exhibit Postcards from Earth: Holograms on an Interstellar Journey, now on display at
the Intrepid Museum!
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Sending Holograms on an Interstellar Journey!
About our exhibit at the Intrepid Sea, Air, & Space Museum
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Space Holograms and Light Sails - Alpha CubeSat!
"Alpha CubeSat is a 1-unit, cube-shaped satellite deploying a free-flying, retroreflective,
ChipSat-equipped light sail. Its technology innovations may one day take us to Alpha Centauri
and beyond!"
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Why Launch a Weather Balloon?
In October 2021, the Alpha CubeSat team at Cornell University launched a weather balloon, hoping
to test our ability to communicate with a future satellite--and our ability to deploy our
lightsail!
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