{"id":472697,"date":"2026-02-11T11:05:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T11:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/472697\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T11:05:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T11:05:12","slug":"cubesats-missions-begin-nasa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/472697\/","title":{"rendered":"CubeSats\u2019 Missions Begin &#8211; NASA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NASA astronaut Chris Williams pointed a camera out a window on the\u00a0cupola\u00a0as a set of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/what-are-smallsats-and-cubesats\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CubeSats<\/a> were deployed outside the\u00a0Kibo laboratory module\u00a0by a small satellite orbital deployer into Earth orbit. Students from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission\/station\/research-explorer\/investigation\/?#id=9541\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mexico<\/a>, Italy,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission\/station\/research-explorer\/investigation\/?#id=9542\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Thailand<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission\/station\/research-explorer\/investigation\/?#id=9544\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Malaysia<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission\/station\/research-explorer\/investigation\/?#id=9543\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Japan<\/a>\u00a0designed the shoe-boxed satellites for a series of Earth observations and technology demonstrations.<\/p>\n<p>CubeSats are a class of nanosatellites \u2013 small spacecraft weighing 1-10 kilograms \u2013 that use a standard size and form factor. The development of CubeSats has advanced into its own industry with government, industry and academia collaborating for ever increasing capabilities. \u00a0CubeSats now provide a cost-effective platform for science investigations, new technology demonstrations and advanced mission concepts.<\/p>\n<p>Image credit: NASA\/Chris Williams<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NASA astronaut Chris Williams pointed a camera out a window on the\u00a0cupola\u00a0as a set of CubeSats were deployed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":472698,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[64,63,50810,3312,128,285],"class_list":["post-472697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cubesats","tag-international-space-station-iss","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=472697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/472698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}