Kestrel Eye Satellite Deployed From Space Station

HOUSTON—Astronauts on Oct. 24 deployed the 50-kg. (110-lb.) Kestrel Eye IIM satellite on a demonstration mission from the International Space Station (ISS). The satellite, the largest ever deployed from the ISS through the station’s Japanese Kibo module airlock, was delivered in August among 6,000...

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