Riveting Space Rescue Unfolds as Orbital Mishap Threatens Mission
After the California Institute of Technology’s Space Solar Power Demonstrator (SSPD-1) stalled during the Deployable On-Orbit Ultralight Composite Experiment’s unfurling, engineers had to rescue it. DOLCE Satellite Triumphs Over Wire Snag in Caltech’s Solar Power Demonstrator Mission Wire entanglement damaged the modular spacecraft experiment’s satellite boom-structure connection. In a new video, the team carefully untangles … Read more