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NanoRacks Doing Business With DoD By Launching Satellites Off ISS

Friday, July 29th, 2016

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NanoRacks, a company doing business on the International Space Station (ISS), has launched roughly six Defense Department payloads into space via ISS, a company official told sister publication Defense Daily.Kirk Woellert, external payloads manager for NanoRacks, said July 22 the six payloads are performing basic research on behalf of the Army, Navy and Air Force. He declined to provide specifics on the work being performed. Woellert said NanoRacks is also under contract from other federal government agencies, but he declined…

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