Four engineers from Terran Orbital Corporation pose with the CubeSat Proximity Operations and Demonstration (CPOD) spacecraft at their facility in California.

NASA, Partner to Demonstrate First-Time In-Orbit Docking of Two CubeSats

NASA’s CubeSat Proximity Operations and Demonstration (CPOD) mission will set out to perform for the first time a series of maneuvers that leads to the docking of three-unit, or 3U, CubeSats.

Image Credit: Terran Orbital Corporation

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