ISS Flight Controllers Assess Cubesat Risk to Departing Soyuz Crew

HOUSTON—NASA spent Sept. 8 weighing whether to retrieve an erratic cubesat deployer from the outside of the space station prior to the Sept. 10 departure of three station astronauts from the orbiting outpost, following a second inadvertent release of two small satellites last week. The Soyuz TMA-12M...

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