NASA CubeSat to Speed Technology Testing in Orbit
The R5-S9 (Realizing Rapid, Reduced-cost high-Risk Research project Spacecraft 9) CubeSat, developed by NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, lifted off at 12:12 a.m. PDT Tuesday, July 7, aboard a…
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