ProSEDS space tether to launch no earlier than September

NASA's Propulsive Small Expendable Deployer System (ProSEDS) experiment will launch no earlier than mid-September, according to Principal Investigator Les Johnson. ProSEDS, which will attempt to demonstrate in-space propulsion using an electrodynamic tether (EDT), is scheduled to fly as a secondary...

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