Aug 23, 2021
NASA Solar Sail Asteroid Mission Readies for Launch on Artemis I
Posted by Alberto Lao in category: space
NASA’s Near-Earth Asteroid Scout is tucked away safely inside the agency’s powerful Space Launch System (SLS) rocket at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The solar sailing CubeSat is one of several secondary payloads hitching a ride on Artemis I, the first integrated flight of the agency’s SLS and the Orion spacecraft.