Tetrahedral Formation At 15,000 MPH Performed By NASA Spacecraft Quartet | Video

Thursday, September 22, 2016 - 20:01 in Astronomy & Space

In a record-breaking maneuver, the NASA’s Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission gathered data on magnetic reconnection. The spacecrafts flew very close to each another as the 4-sided pyramid formation was only six miles across.

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