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  "publishedAt": "2026-02-10T17:03:30.000Z",
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  "textContent": "NASA astronaut Chris Williams pointed a camera out a window on the cupola as a set of CubeSats were deployed outside the Kibo laboratory module by a small satellite orbital deployer into Earth orbit. Students from Mexico, Italy, Thailand, Malaysia, and Japan designed the shoe-boxed satellites for a series of Earth observations and technology demonstrations. CubeSats are a class of nanosatellites – small spacecraft […]\n\nThe post CubeSats’ Missions Begin appeared first on NASA Science.",
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