Thomas Zuburchen, NASA gives the keynote address Aug. 6 at the Small Satellite Conference at Utah State University in Logan, Utah. (Keith Johnson for SpaceNews)

NASA is responding to the growing interest in, and capabilities of, small satellites for science applications with an initiative that will spend $100 million a year on a series of projects.

This post is only available to members.

Jeff Foust has more than a decade of experience writing about space policy, entrepreneurial ventures and regulatory affairs. In 2001, he established spacetoday.net to aggregate and summarize the day's space-related news stories. In 2003, he started The...