NASA DiskSat Explained: The Flat Spacecraft NASA Just Successfully Launched Into Orbit

Jan 22, 2026 - 00:45
NASA DiskSat Explained: The Flat Spacecraft NASA Just Successfully Launched Into Orbit

On December 18th, 2025, NASA and The Aerospace Corporation placed four experimental satellites called DiskSats into orbit. This was not a routine small satellite launch. It was the first successful demonstration of a completely new spacecraft design, one that abandons the box-shaped designs that have dominated small satellites for decades in favor of a thin, flat, disk-shaped form.

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