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Credit & Copyright: Expedition 38 Crew,
NASA
Explanation:
Cubes are orbiting the Earth.
Measuring ten-centimeters on a side,
CubeSats --
each roughly the size of a large
coffee mug --
are designed to be inexpensive both to build and to launch.
Pictured above, three CubeSats were released from the
International Space Station
(ISS) last November by the arm of the
Japanese
Kibo Laboratory module.
CubeSats are frequently created by students as part of university science or
engineering projects and include missions such as collecting
wide angle imagery of the
Earth,
testing orbital radio communications, monitoring the
Earth's magnetic field, and
exploring the Earth's
surrounding radiations.
Depending on the exact height of their release,
CubeSats
will re-enter the
Earth's atmosphere
on the time scale of months to years.
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