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February 17, 2020

Breaking News

[ February 17, 2020 ] Timeline for Falcon 9 launch of Starlink satellites Falcon 9
[ February 17, 2020 ] Live coverage: SpaceX poised for another Starlink launch Monday Falcon 9
[ February 16, 2020 ] Next GPS satellite lands in Florida for April launch Mission Reports
[ February 15, 2020 ] Antares rocket lifts off from Virginia on space station cargo mission Antares
[ February 15, 2020 ] NASA picks Rocket Lab to launch lunar CubeSat mission 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.