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| May 21, 2018

Astronauts soon will have new experiments to conduct related to emergency navigation, DNA sequencing and ultra-cold atom research.

The Orbital ATK Antares rocket, with the Cygnus spacecraft onboard, launches from Pad-0A, Monday, May 21, 2018 at NASA Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.

NASA Sends New Research on Orbital ATK Mission to Space Station

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| May 5, 2018

MarCO is a pair of tiny spacecraft that launched with NASA's InSight lander.

An artists rendering of the twin Mars Cube One (MarCO) spacecraft as they fly through deep space.

NASA's First Deep-Space CubeSats Say: 'Polo!'

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| April 12, 2018

The ASTERIA satellite, currently in low-Earth orbit, is only slightly larger than a box of cereal, but it could help astrophysicists study planets orbiting other stars.

This gif shows a series of images from a single observation of a star by the ASTERIA spacecraft.

Astrophysics CubeSat Demonstrates Big Potential in a Small Package

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