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News and updates.

Mission milestones, recovery debriefs, workshops, and field tests — what the lab has been up to lately.

  • Space Lab heading to SmallSat 2026 with one talk and three posters

    Four submissions accepted to the Small Satellite Conference in Salt Lake City this August — one talk and three posters covering open-source software, hardware-in-the-loop CI for CubeSats, attitude determination, and the PROVES program.

  • ADAPT mission concept selected for UNP funding

    Space Lab’s ADAPT proposal — a 6U CubeSat that learns to control its own orbit using differential drag and reinforcement learning — was selected for the 2026 UNP Mission Concept program. Mission Concept-phase work begins this summer.

  • PROVES-Maia completes assembly, heads to NASA for vibration testing

    The CubeSat will undergo environmental qualification at NASA Johnson Space Center before being handed off to the launch provider. Final integration was carried out by Space Lab students Jasmine Rawles, Chase Blount, and Johnny McCaskill.

  • NASA MUREP funds CubeSat curriculum at Space Lab

    NASA MUREP MPLAN award supports STEM Diversity through CubeSat Technology — a six-workshop hands-on curriculum, led by PI Rangelov and Co-I Jellison, aimed at broadening participation in space-technology training.