Credit: Space Flight Laboratory
The Space Flight Laboratory deorbited its CanX-7 demonstration nanosatellite using four drag sails in April, five years after the sails were deployed and significantly sooner than it would have deorbited naturally. Without the deployment of the drag sails, it would have taken the nanosatellite 178...
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