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LAUNCHES AMONG THE LOBSTERS: GROUP EYES MAINE FOR BLAST OFF

It might sound like a moonshot, but a group of science and space enthusiasts wants Maine to become America’s leader in sending tiny satellites into space.

The tentative plan for the ambitious project is to use a pair of former air bases as the homes of an operation that would launch CubeSat satellites, so-called nanosatellites no bigger than toasters. The former Loring Air Force Base in far northern Maine

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