NASA will demonstrate a new Space Technology Mission Directorate-funded technology designed to support the potential return of science payloads to Earth from the International Space Station via deployed small spacecraft in 2017.

The space agency said Tuesday the Exo-Brake de-orbit device resembles a cross parachute designed to increase the drag and replace rocket-based systems typically used during the de-orbit phase of payload re-entry.

“Exo-Brake’s current design uses a hybrid system of mechanical struts and flexible cord with a control system that ‘warps’ the Exo-Brake,” said Marcus Murbach, principal investigator and inventor of the Exo-Brake device.

NASA noted the warp system was designed to help engineers guide a spacecraft towards a desired entry point without fuel consumption and support the accuracy of landing future payload return missions.

The Exo-Brake project will reside on the ISS in support of the Technology Education nanosatellite which will lead the Cricket Wireless Sensor Module demonstration that offers real time data to TechEdSat-5.

Exo-Brake was developed as part of the Space Technology Mission Directorate’s Game Changing Development program, NASA added.

NASA aims to achieve a twofold increase in the International Space Station’s data flow rates through hardware updates to the Space Network’s ground terminals.

The Space Network works to provide communications services to the ISS and uses a constellation of Tracking and Data Relay Satellites to gather data from the space station and transmit the data back to the ground terminal at White Sands test facility in New Mexico, NASA said Tuesday.

“This upgrade of both the onboard and ground data communications systems enables an increase in the scientific output from the space station,” said Mark Severance, network director of human spaceflight at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland.

“Increasing the data downlink rates from the station will allow the manifestation of new experiments and technology demonstrations that have higher data-rate requirements than could previously be accommodated,” Severance added.

Under the project, the space agency placed a 300 megabits per second data downlink platform at a ground terminal in Guam and will install new hardware systems at ground terminals in Guam and New Mexico to increase the data transmission rate.

The orbiting laboratory uses SN to transmit data on the space station’s systems, astronauts’ health status and science experiment results.

NASA also plans to launch the Boeing-built TDRS-M satellite in the summer of 2017 in an effort to increase SN’s network capacity.

TDRS-M will take off aboard a United Launch Alliance-made Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral in Florida and will be renamed after it completes a series of on-orbit tests within six months.

Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Alabama), chairman of the House Armed Services Committee’s strategic forces subcommittee, has said he plans to lead a reorganization effort that aims to change the way the U.S. government oversees and field space capabilities, Defense News reported Wednesday.

The space reorganization “will be very disruptive and that will make some people unhappy because they don’t like change,” Rogers told Defense News reporters Joe Gould and Valerie Insinna in an interview.

Rogers said the reorganization seeks to keep pace with potential adversaries, deter threats, consider the role of space in communications and commerce and facilitate the acquisition process for space platforms.

“We’ve got to figure out how to make the acquisition process more nimble and rapid and get the capabilities in space we need,” he said.

Rogers told the publication that he has begun talks with Rep. Jim Cooper (D-Tennessee) and industry experts about the Government Accountability Office’s recommendations for space management in a 2015 report.

GAO said the creation of a defense space department led by a civilian chief and equipped with its own budget could potentially lead to a “short-term disruption” to Pentagon’s organizational structure, responsibilities and roles, Defense News added.

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence does not entirely support CIA‘s assessment that Russia launched cyber attacks to help Donald Trump win the 2016 presidential elections due to lack of conclusive evidence, Reuters reported Tuesday.

According to the report by Mark Hosenball and Jonathan Landay, ODNI has yet to fully endorse the CIA’s claim that Russia intended to help Trump defeat his Democratic Party opponent Hillary Clinton.

CIA officials told senators in a closed-door briefing that individuals linked to the Russian government submitted to WikiLeaks stolen emails from the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton’s campaign chief.

The FBI also did not entirely accept the CIA’s intelligence analysis over the same reason, the report stated.

The CIA concluded that Russia sought to support Trump based on the fact that Russian actors hacked Democrats and Republicans but only the former’s information was leaked, according to Reuters.