Hitching a ride on SLS to study solar particles
Friday, February 26, 2016 - 07:00
in Astronomy & Space
A miniature research spacecraft, the CubeSat to study Solar Particles (CuSP), is one of the lucky projects that will hitch a ride on the historic first flight of NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) in 2018. The microsatellite will observe interplanetary magnetic fields and energetic particles in the solar wind.