When we’re in Sun, we run on the solar cells and charge the batteries. In eclipse, just the batteries power the spacecraft.

The first milestone is to get the flight experience and heritage with this device.

In the space world, to be able to fly the next new mission, you have to have flight heritage from the previous mission. But if you don’t fly the previous mission ‘¦it’s kind of a...

We would like to have students and other engineers exercise and operate the spacecraft after the biology has been completed for at least some of that time. Of course, if a critical system were to...