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NanoRacks Marketing ‘Stash And Deploy’ Capability To DoD

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Monday, April 17th, 2017

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NanoRacks Marketing ‘Stash And Deploy’ Capability To DoD

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.--NanoRacks wants to get the Defense Department on board with the company’s stash-and-deploy deploy-on-demand program designed to intermittently release satellites from the International Space Station (ISS), according to NanoRacks CEO Jeff Manber.Manber said DoD is slowly warming to the idea, which he attributed to DoD culture more than stash-and-deploy itself, in which satellites are delivered to ISS via the soft environment of cargo capsules like Orbital ATK’s [OA] Cygnus, as opposed to on top of launch vehicles in…

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Congress

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Congress

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