Last Friday evening (May 11th), CubeSats from Costa Rico, Kenya, and Turkey were deployed into low earth orbits from the Japanese Kibo module on the International Space Station. This video shows a recording of the live webcast of the event. The Irazu (Costa Rica) and 1KUNS-PF（Kenya) satellites can be seen being shot into orbit (with a spring loaded deployer) at around the 35:00 point and UBAKUSAT (Turkey) at around 45:00.

For more about the backgrounds of the three small satellite projects, see

• Irazu – Costa Rica – Costa Rica Institute of Technology (TEC), Central American Association of Aeronautics and Space (ACAE) ,  Kyushu Institute of Technology (Kyutech).
  • Proyecto Irazú | ACAE
  • Irazú Project: The First Satellite Made in Costa Rica by ACAE — Kickstarter
  • Campaña Kickstarter del Proyecto Irazú: Primer satélite de Costa Rica – YouTube
  • IRAZU -Satellite Missions (EO Portal)
  • Costa Rica hands over to JAXA its first CubeSat “Irazu”, the first artificial satellite from Central America. Launch preparation starts. Scheduled to be deployment during Astronaut Kanai stay onboard!  – Experiment/International Space Station/JAXA
• 1KUNS-PF- Kenya –  University of Nairobi
  • Kenya to launch first satellite into space — Quartz
  • Kenya’s first satellite released from Japan’s Kibo module at ISS | The Japan Times
  • The University of Nairobi Hands the First KiboCUBE CubeSat over to JAXA Under UNOOSA-JAXA KiboCUBE Programme – JAXA
• UBAKUSAT – Turkey – USTTL / Istanbul Technical University
  • The Republic of Turkey hands over its CubeSat “UBAKUSAT” to Japan. Launch preparation starts. Scheduled to be deployment during Astronaut Kanai stay onboard! – Experiment/International Space Station/ JAXA
  • Turkey’s ambitious space venture set to start next month – Daily Sabah
  • Turkey’s cube satellite UBAKUSAT, SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket was sent to the Space Station with the Agenda News | SUN (Use translator)

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