NASA Selects CubeSats To Hitch Ride On First SLS
An array of 13 tiny CubeSats is set to take a piggyback ride to the Moon and beyond on the first flight of NASA’s heavy-lift Space Launch System (SLS) in 2018, using excess capability on the big new rocket to demonstrate nanosats beyond low Earth orbit (LEO) for the first time. The U.S. space agency...
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