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Smithsonian
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Aug 17, 2015
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Aug 14, 2015
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Aug 14, 2015
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Aug 13, 2015
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Aug 13, 2015
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Aug 12, 2015
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Aug 12, 2015
NASA has chosen Lunar IceCube for inclusion of secondary smallsat payloads on the the multibillion-dollar SLS-Orion test flight, which could provide potential encouragement for researchers to push deeper into space using CubeSat technologies.