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DescriptionCubeSats launched by ISS Expedition 33.jpg
English: Several tiny CubeSat satellites are shown in this image photographed by an Expedition 33 crew member on the International Space Station on 4 October 2012. The satellites were released outside the Kibo laboratory using a Small Satellite Orbital Deployer attached to the Japanese module's robotic arm. Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Aki Hoshide, flight engineer, set up the satellite deployment gear inside the laboratory and placed it in the Kibo airlock. The Japanese robotic arm then grappled the deployment system and its satellites from the airlock for deployment. A portion of the station's solar array panels and a blue and white part of the earth provide the backdrop for the scene.
This image or video was catalogued by Johnson Space Center of the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) under Photo ID: ISS033-E-009286.
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Captions
CubeSats deployed to orbit from the International Space Station
Items portrayed in this file
depicts
CubeSat
International Space Station
significant event
Expedition 33
copyright status
public domain
determination method: work of the federal government of the United States
inception
4 October 2012
captured with
Nikon D2Xs
catalog code
ISS033-E-009286
catalog: Media catalogue of the Johnson Space Center
exposure time
0.003125 second
f-number
4.2
focal length
65 millimetre
ISO speed
200
media type
image/jpeg
instance of
photograph
checksum
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determination method: SHA-1
data size
2,777,282 byte
height
2,848 pixel
width
4,288 pixel
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