NASA Cost-Saving Technology Demo is Ready for Launch

NASA Cost-Saving Technology Demo is Ready for Launch

Teams encapsulated NASA's R5-S7 (Realizing Rapid, Reduced-cost high-Risk Research project Spacecraft 7) CubeSat, along with three other NASA funded CubeSats, inside a SpaceX Falcon 9 payload fairing with several dozen other satellites at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2025, as part of the company's Transporter-15 rideshare mission.

A NASA small satellite is set to launch on a commercial rideshare mission to test rapid, low-cost deployment of multiple technology prototypes in low Earth orbit, along with three other NASA funded small-scale satellites.

The R5-S7 (Realizing Rapid, Reduced-cost high-Risk Research project Spacecraft 7) CubeSat, developed by NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, is launching