{"id":16011,"date":"2018-05-13T22:44:53","date_gmt":"2018-05-14T02:44:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=16011"},"modified":"2018-05-13T23:05:10","modified_gmt":"2018-05-14T03:05:10","slug":"video-small-satellites-from-costa-rico-kenya-turkey-shot-into-orbit-from-the-iss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=16011","title":{"rendered":"Video: Small satellites from Costa Rico, Kenya &#038; Turkey shot into orbit from the ISS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last Friday evening (May 11th), <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/CubeSat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CubeSats<\/a> from Costa Rico, Kenya, and Turkey were deployed into low earth orbits from the Japanese <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kibo_(ISS_module)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kibo module<\/a> on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/station\/main\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">International Space Station<\/a>. This video shows a recording of the live webcast of the event. The\u00a0Irazu (Costa Rica) and 1KUNS-PF\uff08Kenya) 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.<\/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\/4wRQ1Nljuiw?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>For more about the backgrounds of the three small satellite projects, see<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Irazu &#8211; Costa Rica &#8211;\u00a0Costa Rica Institute of Technology (TEC), Central American Association of Aeronautics and Space (ACAE) ,\u00a0 Kyushu Institute of Technology (Kyutech).\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/irazu.acae-ca.org\/\" target=\"_d\">Proyecto Iraz\u00fa | ACAE<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/irazu\/irazu-project-the-first-satellite-made-in-costa-ri\" target=\"_d\">Iraz\u00fa Project: The First Satellite Made in Costa Rica by ACAE \u2014 Kickstarter<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=i1I_k2KMBfQ\" target=\"_d\">Campa\u00f1a Kickstarter del Proyecto Iraz\u00fa: Primer sat\u00e9lite de Costa Rica &#8211; YouTube<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/directory.eoportal.org\/web\/eoportal\/satellite-missions\/i\/irazu\" target=\"_d\">IRAZU -Satellite Missions (EO Portal)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/iss.jaxa.jp\/en\/kiboexp\/news\/irazu.html\" target=\"_d\">Costa Rica hands over to JAXA its first CubeSat &#8220;Irazu&#8221;, the first artificial satellite from Central America. Launch preparation starts. Scheduled to be deployment during Astronaut Kanai stay onboard!\u00a0 &#8211; Experiment\/International Space Station\/JAXA<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>1KUNS-PF- Kenya &#8211;\u00a0\u00a0University of Nairobi\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/1275698\/kenya-to-launch-first-satellite-into-space\/\" target=\"_d\">Kenya to launch first satellite into space \u2014 Quartz<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/news\/2018\/05\/12\/national\/science-health\/kenyas-first-satellite-released-japans-kibo-module-iss\/#.WvjIcogvx9M\" target=\"_d\">Kenya&#8217;s first satellite released from Japan&#8217;s Kibo module at ISS | The Japan Times<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/global.jaxa.jp\/press\/2018\/01\/20180119_kibocube.html\" target=\"_d\">The University of Nairobi Hands the First KiboCUBE CubeSat over to JAXA Under UNOOSA-JAXA KiboCUBE Programme &#8211; JAXA<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>UBAKUSAT &#8211; Turkey &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/usttl.itu.edu.tr\/en\/\" target=\"_d\">USTTL<\/a>\u00a0\/ Istanbul Technical University\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/iss.jaxa.jp\/en\/kiboexp\/news\/ubakusat.html\" target=\"_d\">The Republic of Turkey hands over its CubeSat &#8220;UBAKUSAT&#8221; to Japan. Launch preparation starts. Scheduled to be deployment during Astronaut Kanai stay onboard! &#8211; Experiment\/International Space Station\/ JAXA<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailysabah.com\/business\/2017\/02\/11\/turkeys-ambitious-space-venture-set-to-start-next-month\" target=\"_d\">Turkey&#8217;s ambitious space venture set to start next month &#8211; Daily Sabah<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gunes.com\/gundem\/turkiyenin-kup-uydusu-ubakusat-spacex-falcon-9-roketi-ile-uzay-istasyonuna-gonderildi-863065\" target=\"_d\">Turkey&#8217;s cube satellite UBAKUSAT, SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket was sent to the Space Station with the Agenda News | SUN<\/a> (Use translator)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">====<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none;\" src=\"\/\/rcm-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/cm?o=1&amp;p=12&amp;l=ur1&amp;category=amzn_basics_elctnics&amp;banner=10PFV81ZPVCWKXE6S9G2&amp;f=ifr&amp;linkID=caaa70725fb7c5b929777e8413b07b34&amp;t=hobbyspace&amp;tracking_id=hobbyspace\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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\u00a0Irazu (Costa Rica) and 1KUNS-PF\uff08Kenya) satellites can be seen being shot into orbit (with a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=16011\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Video: Small satellites from Costa Rico, Kenya &#038; Turkey shot into orbit from the ISS<\/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":[4,22,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amateurstudent-satellite","category-education","category-space-systems"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-4af","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":16580,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=16580","url_meta":{"origin":16011,"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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