NASA-Supported Small Spacecraft Launches to Study Solar Particles
7 May 2026, 14:44 GMT
By Loura Hall
Topic: Space Technology Mission Directorate
Source URL: https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/stmd/nasa-supported-small-spacecraft-launches-to-study-solar-particles/
Through NASA, a university-designed small spacecraft is paving the way to studying particles, known as neutrinos, that move through the universe at near-light speeds. The Solar Neutrino Astro-Particle PhYsics CubeSat, known as SNAPPY, launched at 12 a.m. PDT on Sunday aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space