Here's why NASA could soon be using hoverboard technology in space.

NASA Wants to Use Hoverboard Tech to Control Tiny Satellites

NASA is teaming up with California-based company Arx Pax, which has developed a real-life hoverboard using a technology called Magnetic Field Architecture. The goas is to find a way to manipulate tiny satellites called cubesats.

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