NASA engineers tested the deployment of a full-size solar sail on the CubeSat, Near Earth Asteroid (NEA) Scout at ManTech NeXolve's Huntsville, Alabama, facility on Sept. 13.  The NEA Scout is one of 13 secondary science payloads NASA selected to fly on the initial launch of NASA's Space Launch System rocket. When deployed, the sail is square in shape with each side about the length of a school bus, and harnesses solar energy to use as propulsion to move through space. Credit: NASA/MSFC/Emmett Given #NASA #cubesat #SLS #Orion #GSDO #space #asteroid #rocketscience