Should this thread be moved to the "Commercial Space Flight General" section, or should we make a similar thread there? Some of the posts here don't have anything to do with ISS.
Coast Guard to deploy 2x cubesats for receiving EPIRB signals. www.parabolicarc.com/2018/04/30/coast-guard-preparing-launch-satellites/Each Polar Scout cubesat will pass over the North Pole every 90 to 100 minutes and will be able to detect EPIRB signals from vessels in the Arctic for about 12 minutes on each orbit. The cubesats will circle the earth 15 or 16 times a day, providing more than three hours of search and rescue coverage in the Arctic daily.
An article on Marco cubesats. Now talk on future mission for them. At very least seeing how long they last. spacenews.com/marco-success-vindicates-use-of-cubesats-on-deep-space-missions/Any future mission will need funding, to pay for ground crew and also DSN time.
Myanmar's first satellite is being held on board the International Space Station following the Myanmar coup, while Japan's space agency and a Japanese university decide what to do with it