{"id":81873,"date":"2012-12-11T19:37:37","date_gmt":"2012-12-11T11:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/iss-launches-satellites-for-the-first-time\/"},"modified":"2012-12-11T19:37:37","modified_gmt":"2012-12-11T11:37:37","slug":"iss-launches-satellites-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/iss-launches-satellites-for-the-first-time\/","title":{"rendered":"ISS Launches Satellites for the First Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tags: Japan Aerospace and Exploration Agency, NASA, Satellite Launch, International Space Station, CubeSat<\/p>\n<p>Publication Date: 12\/10\/2012<\/p>\n<table width=\"150\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" cellpadding=\"6\" cellspacing=\"2\" margin=\"5\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"225\" height=\"149\" hspace=\"0\" align=\"right\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/Assets\/Image\/712465main_ssod1_XL.jpg\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<i>The JEM Small Satellite Orbital Deployer being released from the airlock and extended into space in preparation to jettison satellites from the International Space Station.<\/i><br \/>\nImage credit: NASA\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Five CubeSats have been successfully launched from the International Space Station (ISS), making it the first time the station performs such task. Commanded by the <strong>Japan Aerospace and Exploration Agency<\/strong> (JAXA), the spacecraft are now on their way to fulfill their missions. <\/p>\n<p>The CubeSats will take pictures of our planet, log maritime traffic, monitor forest fires, communicate with land via Morse code messages using bright LED lights, and more. They measure approximately 4 cubic inches, weigh less than 3 pounds, and generate their own power via solar panels. <\/p>\n<p>The satellites, four of them built and designed by students, arrived at the ISS on board the JAXA H-II Transfer Vehicle 3 (HTV-3) earlier this summer. They were launched using the Japanese Experiment Module (JEM) Small Satellite Orbital Deployer. According to reports, both <strong>NASA<\/strong> and JAXA are expecting this project to inspire and attract young engineers into the industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tags: Japan Aerospace and Exploration Agency, NASA, Satellite Launch, International Space Station, CubeSat Publication Date: 12\/10\/2012 The JEM Small Satellite Orbital Deployer being released from the airlock and extended into space in preparation to jettison satellites from the International Space Station. Image credit: NASA Five CubeSats have been successfully launched from the International Space Station [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81873"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}