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ISS deployment successful!

May 16, 2016

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MinXSS was deployed from the International Space Station at 10:05:26 UTC. Here’s a quick video of the deployment that James Mason took of the live stream and here’s a video compilation that he made of the 5k res photos that astronaut Tim Peake took from the space station.

Finally, here’s the location of the space station at the time of this deployment:

Position of the ISS at the time of MinXSS & CADRE deployment. The bright spot is everything that the ISS can see. The yellow line is the terminator (daytime/nighttime line), and the white dotted line is the path of the ISS and CubeSats.

Position of the ISS at the time of MinXSS & CADRE deployment. The bright spot is everything that the ISS can see. The yellow line is the terminator (daytime/nighttime line), and the white dotted line is the path of the ISS and CubeSats.