Flight modem allows rocket to "phone it in"

Engineers at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center's Wallops Flight Facility are developing a "flight modem" package that could allow suborbital vehicles to transmit information to the ground via satellite systems such as Globalstar. The three-pound package would eliminate the need for much of the...

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