Space News Reports on the HatchBasket

 

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Our friends at Space News have written a great piece about Altius’ latest venture – the HatchBasket.

Altius engineers have designed the new payload carrier, called HatchBasket, to fit in the hatchway of Orbital Sciences Corp.’s enhanced Cygnus cargo module and take advantage of fuel remaining in the unmanned cargo ship to boost the capsule to an altitude of approximately 500 kilometers where HatchBasket would expel its complement of satellites. – Debra Werner, Space News

You can read the entire article at SpaceNews.com!