NASA sees potential value in cubesat swarms collecting data via distributed sensors.
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NASA’s first small spacecraft missions were in 1972 and 1973, when it launched Pioneer 10 and 11. Those deep space probes weighed less than 600 kg (1,300 lb.) and explored the outer Solar System. In the decades since, NASA gradually increased its number of small spacecraft missions. But it was not...
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