India’s HEX20Labs has partnered with Japanese firm ispace for a mission to send a CubeSat into lunar orbit. Scheduled to launch on ispace's M2 mission, the Indian CubeSat will ride aboard the lander Resilience, aiming to orbit the Moon and conduct critical technology testing. This mission signifies a major stride in India’s cislunar exploration efforts, enhancing capabilities in satellite standardisation for lunar missions. With this launch, India and Japan strengthen their cooperation in space research, marking a significant step toward future lunar exploration and the advancement of technology in low-gravity environments.

CubeSats make it affordable for universities and private companies to launch a satellite into space.

(NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center) NASA has selected a new pathfinding CubeSat mission to gather data not collected since the agency flew the Dynamics Explorer in the early 1980s.

npj Microgravity, Published online: 23 April 2020; doi:10.1038/s41526-020-0102-3

Protein structural changes on a CubeSat under rocket acceleration profile