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Command Communications Established with Starlink Satellites

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Tom Patton
Aug 14, 2023
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Mission managers have established command communications with all four of NASA’s Starling CubeSats. The spacecraft are progressing through payload and propulsion tests, the final stage of a pre-operations checklist called commissioning.

The Starling spacecraft – which project team members nicknamed Blinky, Pinky, Inky, and Clyde – are part of an ambitiou…

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