FUNcube-1 flight model – Image credit Wouter Weggelaar PA3WEG
The BBC report that the Dnepr rocket launching from Yasny in Russia has set a record for the most payloads carried to orbit in a single mission.
They say the converted intercontinental missile released 32 objects in space – mostly small, so called “cubesats”.
Read the BBC story Rocket deploys spacecraft armada at
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-25035490
Story on NASA Space Flight
http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2013/11/russian-dnepr-record-breaking-32-satellite-haul/
ADS Advance Magazine
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