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  • Weather-monitoring and tech demo CubeSats deployed in orbit

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    Artist’s illustration of the RainCube spacecraft released from the International Space Station on July 13. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Fifteen CubeSats owned by NASA, Spire Global, and U.S. research institutions launched aboard a Northrop Grumman Cygnus cargo ship in May have been released into orbit, beginning missions to demonstrate miniaturized, low-cost Earth science instruments and join a…

  • Cygnus arrives at station with CubeSats, quantum physics experiment

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    Orbital ATK’s Cygnus supply ship in the grip of the space station’s robotic arm Thursday. Credit: Norishige Kanai/JAXA/NASA Closing out a three-day chase from a launch pad in Virginia, Orbital ATK’s Cygnus cargo freighter arrived Thursday at the International Space Station with nearly 7,400 pounds of equipment, delivering food, a quantum physics experiment, and CubeSats…