CAT 1 – Spaceflight Now

June 26, 2022

Breaking News

[ June 24, 2022 ] NASA targeting late summer launch for first Artemis moon rocket Artemis
[ June 23, 2022 ] European probe images Mercury’s cratered landscape on second flyby Mission Reports
[ June 23, 2022 ] Second segment added to Starship launch tower at Kennedy Space Center Mission Reports
[ June 23, 2022 ] ULA’s next launch for Space Force is less than a week away Atlas 5
[ June 22, 2022 ] Ariane 5 rocket deploys satellites for Malaysia and India Ariane 5

CubeSat deployed from space station to test sample return technology

February 13, 2019

One of five CubeSats deployed from the International Space Station last month is testing a steerable drag brake that could find use in future smallsats to return experiment samples to the ground from low Earth orbit, or on low-cost micro-probes to explore other planets.