Five small CubeSats were deployed from the International Space Station on Monday via NanoRacks’ commercial deployment mechanism that allows ISS to serve as an orbital launch pad for educational and commercial satellite missions of short duration.
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NASA provided preliminary approval for the addition of a commercial airlock module to the International Space Station in 2019 to streamline satellite deployments from the orbiting outpost.
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A group of six small satellites from Japan, Singapore and Italy was released from the International Space Station on Monday to begin a variety of technical demonstration missions with particular focus on orbital debris removal and re-entry systems.
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A small satellite was deployed from the International Space Station Monday morning for a technical demonstration of a tether extending system using a mother and daughter satellite.
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The Danish AAUSAT 5 CubeSat, launched aboard the HTV-5 cargo spacecraft and deployed from the International Space Station, re-entered on March 15, 2016 after five months in orbit.
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