NASA's MMS observatories stacked for testing
Monday, April 21, 2014 - 07:30
in Astronomy & Space
(Phys.org) —Engineers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., accomplished another first. Using a large overhead crane, they mated two Magnetospheric Multiscale, or MMS, observatories – also called mini-stacks—at a time, to construct a full four-stack of observatories.