[amsat-bb] Six CubeSats deployment from ISS at 16 Jan

[Masahiro Arai]

Six CubeSats delivered to ISS by HTV-6 will deploy from ISS with new
JEM Small Satellite Orbital Deployer (J-SSOD) at 16h Jan. New J-SSOD
has four satellite install cases. One satellite install case has 3U
space, so new J-SSOD can delploy twelve CubeSat at one time. Six
CubeSats are installed followings,

satellite
install     CubeSats
case
   #1        three 1U CubeSats  ITF-2、WASEDA-SAT3、FREEDOM
   #2        one 3U CubeSat     EGG
   #3        one 2U CubeSat     AOBA-VELOX3
   #4        one 3U CubeSat     TuPOD (including Tancredo1 and OSNSAT)

ITF-2、WASEDA-SAT3、AOBA-VELOX3, TuPOD and Tancredo1 are opeprate on
ham band.


#1 and #2 will be deployed at 0900-0930z 16th Jan, #3 and #4 will be
1030-1100z.

Live broadcast will start at 0850z on YouTube JAXA channel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4xq_rj0QiQ


This info from JAXA.


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