Waspie_Dwarf Posted September 26, 2017 #1 Share Posted September 26, 2017 NASA's Near-Earth Asteroid CubeSat Goes Full Sail Quote NASA's Near-Earth Asteroid Scout, a small satellite the size of a shoebox, designed to study asteroids close to Earth, performed a full-scale solar sail deployment test at ManTech NeXolve's facility in Huntsville, Alabama, Sept. 13. The test was performed in an indoor clean room to ensure the deployment mechanism's functionality after recent environmental testing. NEA Scout is a six-unit CubeSat that relies on an innovative solar sail for propulsion. It is one of 13 secondary science payloads NASA selected to fly on the initial launch of NASA's Space Launch System rocket. Read More: NASA 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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