ISS Deploys Cubesats, Marks 100,000 Orbits

HOUSTON – Astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) began a three-day series of 17 CubeSat deployments on May 16, as the six-person lab embarked on its 100,000th orbit of the Earth. The station’s first component, the Russian Zarya propulsion, power and guidance module, was launched on...

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