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June 23, 2019

Starshade Would Take Formation Flying to Extremes

Future Mission Would Involve Two Spacecraft Flying Some 25,000 Miles Apart

Anyone who's ever seen aircraft engaged in formation flying can appreciate the feat of staying highly synchronized while airborne. In work sponsored by NASA's Exoplanet Exploration Program (ExEP), engineers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, are taking formation flying to a new extreme.

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