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ELaNa 20 Mission Payload First to Fly on Virgin Orbit

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Tom Patton
Dec 17, 2020
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Ten NASA-sponsored CubeSats are preparing to fly on the agency’s Educational Launch of Nanosatellites (ELaNa) 20 mission, making this the first payload carried by Virgin Orbit’s LauncherOne rocket.

“The journey to this launch has been long and challenging. Our CubeSat developers have invested much of themselves in their spacecraft, and I know they’ll all…

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