{"id":16580,"date":"2018-08-15T10:57:04","date_gmt":"2018-08-15T14:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=16580"},"modified":"2018-08-15T10:57:04","modified_gmt":"2018-08-15T14:57:04","slug":"video-japans-birds-project-deploys-satellites-from-iss-for-countries-new-to-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=16580","title":{"rendered":"Video: Japan’s BIRDS project deploys satellites from ISS for countries new to space"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Japan space agency’s BIRDS project<\/a>\u00a0has launched university student-built CubeSats from the Kibo module<\/a> on the International Space Station<\/a>\u00a0for several countries that have never before put spacecraft into orbit. The project is\u00a0managed by the Kyushu Institute of Technology (Kyutech) and is known officially as the Joint Global Multi-Nation Birds Satellite<\/em> project.<\/p>\n

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A view of the BIRDS-2 deployment as seen by German astronaut Alexander Gerst<\/a>.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Birds-1 deployed scientific and technology demonstration CubeSats from Ghana, Mongolia, Nigeria, Bangladesh and Japan while BIRDS-2 deployed CubeSats for Bhutan, Malaysia, and the Philippines.<\/p>\n

This video, narrated mostly in Japanese but with English subtitles, describes the Birds project and shows the two deployment events. An animation between 11:10 – 14:30 gives a clear depiction of how the ISS satellite deployment system works.<\/p>\n