[amsat-bb] Quest-1 SSTV CubeSat + Nanoracks

[M5AKA]

Quest-1 plans to have a 2m Digitalker and SSTV downlink. It's currently slated to launch to the ISS on the SpaceX CRS3 in November with deployment in December.

The IARU satellite status pages say that Quest-1 will be part of a Nanoracks deployment from the ISS with Lithuanica-1 1U CubeSat, ArduSat-2 2U CubeSat, GOMSPACE-1 2U CubeSat, SkyCube [915 MHz] 1U CubeSat, TaiwanSat 2U CubeSat, GOMEX-2 2U CubeSat, Cosmogia TWENTY SIX other 3U CubeSats.

It's the 26 other 3U CubeSats that intrigue me. Does anyone know if they are to be deployed in the sense of put into a free orbit or if it's just intended to mount them on the outside of the ISS to expose them to a space environment ?

There's an article on Nanoracks in Space Quarterly at 
http://nanoracks.com/wp-content/uploads/Space-Quarterly-NanoRacks.pdf

73 Trevor M5AKA