Delphini 1 – Spaceflight Now

December 7, 2019

Breaking News

[ December 6, 2019 ] Rocket Lab’s 10th launch tests booster recovery technology Mission Reports
[ December 6, 2019 ] Live coverage: Practice countdown completed for Starliner and Atlas 5 Atlas 5
[ December 6, 2019 ] Russian cargo freighter on the way to space station Mission Reports
[ December 5, 2019 ] SpaceX pausing some Starship work in Florida News
[ December 5, 2019 ] Dragon soars on research and resupply flight to International Space Station Falcon 9

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.