Modular Common Spacecraft Bus

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Modular Common Spacecraft Bus

United States spacecraft

Also known as: MCSB

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Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer
…first spacecraft based on the Modular Common Spacecraft Bus (MCSB), an inexpensive modular platform that was designed to do away with the need to build a new spacecraft for each new mission. To save fuel, the spacecraft traveled very slowly, reaching lunar orbit on October 6. (Most other missions to…
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…first spacecraft based on the Modular Common Spacecraft Bus (MCSB), an inexpensive modular platform that was designed to do away with the need to build a new spacecraft for each new mission. To save fuel, the spacecraft traveled very slowly, reaching lunar orbit on October 6. (Most other missions to…
Read More