{"id":14385,"date":"2017-05-18T15:06:33","date_gmt":"2017-05-18T19:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=14385"},"modified":"2017-05-18T15:06:33","modified_gmt":"2017-05-18T19:06:33","slug":"satellites-launched-into-orbit-from-the-iss-includes-qb50-mission-student-cubesats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=14385","title":{"rendered":"Satellites launched into orbit from the ISS, includes QB50 Mission student CubeSats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week over a dozen small satellites called CubeSats have been injected into orbit from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/station\/main\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">International Space Station<\/a>\u00a0using a system developed by <a href=\"http:\/\/NanoRacks.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NanoRacks<\/a>. This video of the deployment of a NASA satellite on Tuesday:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wwqpZLhzizI?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>A description of the satellites being sent into orbit is given in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/nanoracks.com\/cubesat-deployer-mission-11-update\/\" target=\"_d\">CubeSat Deployer Mission 11 Status Update: Good Deploy! &#8211; NanoRacks<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_14386\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14386\" style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/deploy-May16-2017.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"14386\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?attachment_id=14386\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/deploy-May16-2017.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"4928,3280\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON D4&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1494935706&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;60&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;400&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0005&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"ISS CubeSat Launch\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;A cubesat is shot into orbit from the ISS; Credits NanoRacks.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/deploy-May16-2017-300x200.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/deploy-May16-2017-1024x682.jpg\" class=\"size-large wp-image-14386\" src=\"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/deploy-May16-2017-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"346\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/deploy-May16-2017-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/deploy-May16-2017-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/deploy-May16-2017-768x511.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14386\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>A cubesat is shot into orbit from the ISS; Credits <a href=\"http:\/\/www.NanoRacks.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NanoRacks<\/a>.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The deployments included\u00a0satellites from the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.qb50.eu\/\" target=\"_d\">QB50 Mission<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The QB50 Mission consists of dozens of universities located around the world \u2013 including Israel, Canada, Australia, Korea, Spain, Germany, France and more. Coordinated by the von Karman Institute and sponsored by the European Commission, the QB50 CubeSats will take advantage of the space station orbit to study the lower thermosphere (200-380 kilometers) collecting scientific climate data, in what is considered by experts a relatively unexplored part of Earth\u2019s atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p>The ISS portion of the QB50 Mission involves over 300 students and 50 professionals, which brings the program together.<\/p>\n<p>Astronaut Thomas Pesquet tells us about the QB50 Mission being deployed via NanoRacks and our NRCSD (NanoRacks CubeSat Deployer) on the International Space Station.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TWH9GORcNxM?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week over a dozen small satellites called CubeSats have been injected into orbit from the International Space Station\u00a0using a system developed by NanoRacks. This video of the deployment of a NASA satellite on Tuesday: A description of the satellites being sent into orbit is given in\u00a0CubeSat Deployer Mission 11 Status Update: Good Deploy! &#8211; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=14385\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Satellites launched into orbit from the ISS, includes QB50 Mission student CubeSats<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,13,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amateurstudent-satellite","category-space-science","category-space-systems"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-3K1","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":16580,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=16580","url_meta":{"origin":14385,"position":0},"title":"Video: Japan&#8217;s BIRDS project deploys satellites from ISS for countries new to space","author":"TopSpacer","date":"August 15, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"The Japan space agency's BIRDS project\u00a0has launched university student-built CubeSats from the Kibo module on the International Space Station\u00a0for several countries that have never before put spacecraft into orbit. 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