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Atmosphere-monitoring satellites will ride on Spaceflight’s new breed of space tug – GeekWire
Seattle-based Spaceflight Inc. says it’s won a contract to handle logistics for a pair of NASA satellites that will study the factors behind atmospheric drag.

An artists conception shows one of NASAs LLITED satellites in orbit. (Illustration by The Aerospace Corp.)
Seattle-based Spaceflight Inc. says its won a contract to handle the launch logistics for a pair of NASA satellites that will study the factors behind atmospheric drag.
The twin CubeSats for a mission known as Low-Latitude Ionosphere / Thermosphere Enhancements in Density, or LLITED, are to be lofted into orbit by a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket around the end of this year. That launch that will mark…
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