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March 31, 2023

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[ March 30, 2023 ] Live coverage: SpaceX countdown at Vandenberg aborted at T-minus 3 seconds Falcon 9
[ March 29, 2023 ] First flight of astronauts on Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft slips to July Atlas 5
[ March 29, 2023 ] First launch for Pentagon’s own mega-constellation set for Thursday Falcon 9
[ March 29, 2023 ] SpaceX launches another bundle of Starlink internet satellites Mission Reports
[ March 28, 2023 ] Damaged Russian Soyuz capsule returns to Earth without a crew Mission Reports

CubeSat deployed from space station to test sample return technology

February 13, 2019 Stephen Clark

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.