NASA Begins Checkout of Dellingr Spacecraft Designed to Improve Robustness of CubeSat Platforms

NASA ground controllers have begun checking out and commissioning a shoebox-sized spacecraft that the agency purposely built to show that CubeSat platforms could be cost-effective, reliable, and capable of gathering highly robust science.

The Dellingr spacecraft will begin science operations once ground controllers complete checkout, which began a few hours after the NanoRacks CubeSat Deployer aboard the International Space Station released the CubeSat into its low-Earth orbit Nov. 20. Continue reading https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2017/nasa-begins-checkout-of-dellingr-spacecraft-designed-to-improve-robustness-of-cubesat