Five Small Sats Set for Delta II Liftoff

Credit: CARLETON BAILIE/AW&ST
NASA is poised next week to launch five spacecraft atop the same Delta rocket on a complex flight using small spacecraft. The $180-million mission designed to unravel secrets of Earth's aurora has extensive Canadian involvement. The mission is to settle dueling theories, so it is named "Themis"...

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