MMS: Engineering Challenges

  • Released Friday, January 31, 2014
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It's hard enough to build one spacecraft, but the Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission (MMS) is building four. Together, the spacecraft will unlock the mysteries of magnetic reconnection, when magnetic fields explosively connect and disconnect, transferring energy.

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This page was originally published on Friday, January 31, 2014.
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  • MMS: Engineering Challenges (ID: 2013063)
    Saturday, March 1, 2014 at 5:00AM
    Produced by - Will Duquette (NASA)