List of spacecraft deployed from the International Space Station

This is a list of spacecraft deployed from the International Space Station. The International Space Station deploys spacecraft using the JEM Small Satellite Orbital Deployer (J-SSOD), the Nanoracks CubeSat Deployer (NRCSD), Space Station Integrated Kinetic Launcher for Orbital Payload Systems (SSIKLOPS), or the Nauka MLM experiments airlock module.[1]

List

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2015

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2019

2020

2021

2022

2023

Spacecraft awaiting deployment

The following spacecrafts have been brought to the ISS and are scheduled to be deployed.

See also

  • Lists of spacecraft

References

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  106. The FEES2 and GASPACS #cubesat payloads were deployed from the #ISS on time this morning by #Nanoracks^
  107. REVISED for 26 Jan: #ISS #NRCSD22 deploy by #Nanoracks 7:00 am ET/12:00 UTC GASPACS: Get Away Special Passive Attitude Control Satellite 1U #cubesat - @USUAggies Utah State Univ will deploy 1m boom to achieve stabilization in low Earth orbit. https://www.usu.edu/physics/gas/projects/gaspacs-project-page^
  108. REVISED for 26 Jan: #ISS #NRCSD22 deploy by #Nanoracks 7:10 am ET/12:10 UTC PATCOOL: Passive Thermal Coating Observatory Operating in Low-Earth Orbit 3U #cubesat - @UF Univ of Florida a cryogenic selective surface coating to passively cool components. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20200000647^
  109. The PATCOOL #cubesat was deployed from the #ISS on time this morning by #Nanoracks^
  110. REVISED for 26 Jan: #ISS #NRCSD22 deploy by #Nanoracks 8:30 am ET/ 13:30 UTC DAILI: Daily Atmospheric Ionospheric Limb Imager 6U #cubesat - @AerospaceCorp will study airglow. https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/nasa-daili-cubesat-to-study-complex-atmospheric-composition/^
  111. The DAILI #cubesat has been deployed from the #spacestation by #Nanoracks^
  112. REVISED for 26 Jan: #ISS #NRCSD22 deploy by #Nanoracks 8:40 am ET/13:40 UTC TARGIT: Tethering And Ranging Mission Of The Georgia Institute Of Technology a 3U #cubesat - @GeorgiaTech will test imaging #LiDAR system capable of cm-level topographic mapping. https://ssdl.gatech.edu/research/projects/tethering-and-ranging-mission-georgia-institute-technology-targit^
  113. The TARGIT #cubesat has been deployed from the #spacestation by #Nanoracks^
  114. Космонавт Олег Артемьев с борта МКС запустил российские спутники по программе КЭ "Радиоскаф" R4UAB, 21 July 2022, retrieved 25 July 2022^
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  116. Russian cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev reported one of the CubeSats being hand-deployed outside the International Space Station made "mild" contact on or near a solar array on the Russian segment of the complex. The satellite deployments are continuing. https://spaceflightnow.com/2022/07/21/russian-esa-iss-eva/^
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  118. 10th and last cubesat flying free at 1640 UTC^
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  121. Nanoracks successfully deployed five #CubeSats from the @Space_Station early this morning as a part of our NRCSD#23 mission! See below for information on each of the awesome satellites (1/7)🧵^
  122. DEPLOY#1 D3, a 2U CubeSat from @UF, was deployed at 9:10:00 UTC (5:10:00 EDT). D3, or Drag De-Orbit Device, tests a device with controllable drag surfaces that can be repeatedly deployed and retracted to adjust a satellite’s rate of orbital decay (2/7)🛰️^
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  124. DEPLOY#1 JAGSAT, a 2U CubeSat from @UofSouthAlabama, was also deployed at 9:10:00 UTC (5:10:00 EDT). The satellite is testing an instrument called a Time Domain Impedance Probe (TDIP) that will measure variation in electron density in the upper layer of the ionosphere (3/7)⛅️^
  125. DEPLOY#1 CapSat-1, a 1U from @WeissSchool, was also deployed at 9:10:00 UTC (5:10:00 EDT). The satellite will demonstrate use of a capacitor-based electrical power system and also provide hands-on engineering experience to middle and high school students (4/7)🔋^
  126. DEPLOY#2 BeaverCube, a 3U from @mit_starlab, was deployed at 9:20:00 UTC (5:20:00 EDT). BeaverCube will collect data on the temperature and color of the surface of the ocean for climate change research, as well as demonstrate an electrospray propulsion system (5/7) 🌊^
  127. DEPLOY#2 CLICK A, a 3U from @NASAAmes, was also deployed at 9:20:00 UTC (5:20:00 EDT). The CubeSat will demonstrate low-cost, one-way laser communications via a downlink to a ground station. (6/7) 🔦^
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