CAT 2 – Spaceflight Now

June 23, 2021

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[ June 22, 2021 ] Starliner capsule fueled for unpiloted test flight to International Space Station Atlas 5
[ June 21, 2021 ] Photos: SpaceX rocket launches, then lands, on Space Force mission Falcon 9
[ June 21, 2021 ] Chinese military payloads deployed on Long March 2C rocket launch Mission Reports
[ June 20, 2021 ] Photos: Surplus missile motor from 1960s launches classified NRO satellites Mission Reports
[ June 20, 2021 ] Spacewalkers unfurl first of six new space station solar arrays Mission Reports

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.