October 14, 2015
WASHINGTON, Oct. 9, 2015—NASA and The Aerospace Corporation of El Segundo, California, have received confirmation the Optical Communications and Sensor Demonstration (OCSD) CubeSat spacecraft is in orbit and operational. OCSD launched aboard an Atlas V rocket Thursday from the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. OCSD is the first in a new series of six NASA-managed technology demonstration