NASA | How Will the 4 MMS Spacecraft Launch and Deploy?

In March of 2015, an unprecedented NASA mission will launch to study a process so mysterious that no one has ever directly measured it in action. To create the first-ever 3-dimensional maps of this process, a process called magnetic reconnection, which occurs all over the universe, the Magnetospheric Multiscale, or MMS, mission uses four separate spacecraft equipped with ultra high speed instruments. Watch the video to get a sneak preview of how MMS will make this journey: The four spacecraft are housed in