The 16 chosen projects are: These projects will fly aboard not just flights headed to the ISS, as well as missions led by NASA, but also aboard launches led by other government agencies and even commercial organizations.
NASA's CubeSat Launch Initiative remains successful nine years after it first opened, announcing 16 new small satellite projects which will use the agency's bigger missions to hitch a ride into orbit between 2020-2022. The cubesats set to be launched by NASA include Arizona State University's Star-Planet Activity Research CubeSat, which will monitor solar flares from red dwarfs, and CatSat from the University of Arizona, which will deploy a one-metre wide HD video-transmitting inflatable antenna. Other projects from various institutions will test deep-space solar sail technology, study lower thermosphere wave propagation, and analyse the links between solar irradiance and climate change.