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There’s a small chance that the solar cells could charge as the angle of the sun changes, but that depends on whether the cause is due to a pointing issue or some other anomaly, JAXA officials said in a press conference. Loren Grush very nicely lays out some of NASA’s forward-thinking strategy with its Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) program: accept some risk. In 1992, NASA launched the first International Microgravity Laboratory on board the space shuttle Discovery, and it carried a number of scientific research and experiments looking into the effects of zero G on materials and living organisms.

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