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ISS Education/Science/Commercial Projects NASA and CASIS Ignore

By Keith Cowing
NASA Watch
October 4, 2012
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SpaceX Dragon to Carry 23 Student Experiments to Space Station
“SSEP offers a unique flight opportunity that allows students to experience both the excitement and the challenges inherent in conducting research in a microgravity environment,” said Roosevelt Johnson, deputy associate administrator for education at NASA Headquarters in Washington. “It really is STEM [science, technology, engineering and mathematics] in action, using the International Space Station — which has America’s only orbiting National Laboratory — to host these students’ science experiments.”
Keith’s note: No mention is made of this news at the CASIS website. Nor is any mention made at the Space Station or ISS National Laboratory websites. NASA’s education website does mention this news. CASIS seems to be going out of its way to ignore the very things it is supposed to be promoting. This project involves Nanoracks which signed an agreement with CASIS to utilize the ISS. Yet CASIS continues to ignore what Nanoracks is doing on the ISS. Baffling.
Photos of Cubesat Deployment From The International Space Station
NASA’S Techedsat Launches From International Space Station
“NASA engineers, student interns and amateur radio enthusiasts around the world are listening for signals from a small, cube-shaped satellite launched into orbit from the International Space Station Thursday.”
Keith’s update: No mention is made of this news at the CASIS, Space Station, ISS National Laboratory, or NASA education, or Chief Technologist websites.

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3 responses to “ISS Education/Science/Commercial Projects NASA and CASIS Ignore”

  1. James Lundblad says:
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    This looks very cool, is there a SSEP community for the SF Bay Area? I didn’t see any markers in Northern California, just LA.

  2. hikingmike says:
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    I love the photos of those cubesats 🙂  Keep spitting those things out.

  3. John Gardi says:
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    Folks:

    Just to point out, Keith is talking about two different projects here.

    One is the student experiments on Dragon which are housed in a special stationary rack aboard the capsule during the entire flight. During the previous flight, the experiments didn’t get activated so SpaceX is flying them again. SpaceX is also flying a dozen new ones too.

    The other is a project to launch cube sats from the space station. The mini satellites are loaded on a launching device that is then attached to the Japanese robot arm. The arm aims the launcher in the proper direction and then… sproing, sproing, sproing, they get deployed. The crew can even take the launcher into the station through the Japanese airlock and reload it with cube sats without taking a space walk.

    tinker