# @nasaartemis on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/9n9eUVmh_7
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/15347340-nasaartemis-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2015-11-03T13:29:36.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** NASA Artemis (@nasaartemis) — https://gondola.cc/nasaartemis

## Caption

NASA opened a new avenue for exploration and technology development with awards to three companies to launch missions dedicated to #CubeSats. The tiny, box-shaped spacecraft have emerged in the last 16 years as a quick, viable way to test components and techniques that, if proven, can be applied to much larger missions where the stakes are far greater than a simple, 4-inch cube. The price tag for each mission is one-tenth the cost of the least-expensive traditional launcher. NASA will fly CubeSats as a secondary payload. on Exploration Mission-1, the first integrated flight of the Orion spacecraft and Space Launch System rocket from a modernized spaceport at NASA Kennedy. 
Credit: NASA 
#technology #technologytuesday #nasa #sls #orion #spaceport #inspace #progress #future #space #exploration 
#floatinginspace

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space, inspace, spaceport, exploration, technology, sls, orion, future, floatinginspace, technologytuesday, progress, cubesats, nasa

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