NASA’s Pandora Satellite, CubeSats to Explore Exoplanets, and Beyond NASA’s Pandora mission, a groundbreaking small satellite launched on January 11, 2026, aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, is revolutionizing exoplanet studies by analyzing the atmospheres of at least 20 distant worlds and their host stars.[1][2][6] This fridge-sized spacecraft, weighing 716 pounds (325 kilograms), marks the…
