Team Miles with the cubesat riding into orbit as a secondary payload on the Artemis 1 uncrewed lunar mission. From left to right: team leader Wesley Faler, lead engineer Don Smith, information technology director Alex Wingeier.

Team Miles founder Wesley Faler has spent more than a decade developing and refining the water-fueled plasma thrusters set to fly for the first time on a cubesat launching alongside the NASA Artemis-1 mission.

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Debra Werner is a correspondent for SpaceNews based in San Francisco. Debra earned a bachelor’s degree in communications from the University of California, Berkeley, and a master’s degree in Journalism from Northwestern University. She is a recipient...