NASA Launches Pyramid Satellite Project To Study Space Weather

Controllers at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center are doing some pretty tight flying. Alex DeMetrick reports four satellites are being brought close together to get a closer look at space weather. The Blue Angels pull off tight formations every day, but in Maryland, controllers at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center are bringing four satellites into a very close formation for the first time. “No one’s ever gotten this close before,” said Conrad Schiff, with the project. Four small satellites are being brought within ten miles of each other. That’s a whisker close in space. “Keeping the spacecraft close enough to meet the science goals, and at the same time, keeping them from actually getting so close they could collide,” Schiff said. More

(Source: CBS Local - Oct 16)