Four NASA Satellites Set Record for Formation Flying in Space

Friday, September 23, 2016 - 12:01 in Astronomy & Space

Four individual satellites of NASA's Magnetospheric Multiscale mission (MMS) set a record for the closest flying formation ever achieved by a multi-craft space mission. The satellite quartet orbits Earth, studying magnetic reconnection.

Read the whole article on Space.com

More from Space.com

Latest Science Newsletter

Get the latest and most popular science news articles of the week in your Inbox! It's free!

Check out our next project, Biology.Net