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NASA tests disk-shaped satellites in orbit to push limits of small spacecraft design

NASA has launched a new kind of small spacecraft that could reshape how low-cost missions fly and operate in orbit. At 12:03 a.m. EST on Thursday, December 18, NASA’s DiskSat technology demonstration ...
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SpaceX sends 29 Starlink satellites into orbit from NASA's Kennedy Space Center

SpaceX launched 29 Starlink satellites into low-Earth orbit on Monday. The launch took place at NASA's Kennedy Space Center at 5:25 p.m. Starlink aims to provide high-speed Internet around the world, ...
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NASA launches DiskSat demo into low earth orbit

NASA’s DiskSat launched into low Earth orbit early Thursday morning from the company’s Launch Complex 2 on Wallops Island, Virginia.Four plate-shaped spacecraft demonstrated a new small spacecraft ...
PC Magazine

They Look Like UFOs, But DiskSats Are a New Way to Get Satellites in Orbit

Circular and flat, these DiskSats are designed to pack more satellites into a rocket launch. NASA funded the project "to lower mission costs and expand access to space," it tweeted. The DiskSats ...
SpaceNews

Rocket Lab launches Space Force and NASA ‘DiskSat’ experiment

WASHINGTON — A U.S. Space Force and NASA experiment lifted off from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 2 at Wallops Island, Virginia Dec. 18 at 12:03 a.m. Eastern to test a new small-satellite architecture ...
Aviation Week

NASA, Momentus Team Up For In-Orbit Servicing Mission

Momentus is partnering with NASA to demonstrate joint rendezvous and proximity operations (RPO) and formation flying in low Earth orbit. Credit: Momentus Commercial space startup Momentus and NASA ...