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On February
25, 26 and 27, 2014 several Nanosatellites were launched from the International
Space station. The Nanosatellites delivered to the ISS by the "Cygnus” unmanned
spacecraft were launched from the Japanese "Kibo” module of the ISS
The term
"nanosatellite" or "nanosat" is applied to an artificial
satellite with a wet mass between 1 and 10 kg.
The
following Nanosatellites were launched from the ISS:
Flock-1.17
and Flock-1.18 – on February 25 at 17:00
UTC;
Flock-1.21
and Flock-1.22 – on February 26 at 04:20
UTC;
Flock-1.19
and Flock-1.20 – on February 26 at 07:35
UTC;
Flock-1.23
and Flock-1.24 – on February 27 at 01:50
UTC;
Flock-1.25
and Flock-1.26 – on February 27 at 07:40
UTC;
All
satelites are belonged to Planet Labs, Inc., an American private company that
aims to create an Earth imaging satellite network with open data access.
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