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Hopkins with SPHERES RINGS
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Hopkins with SPHERES RINGS

NASA / JSC · 2013-11-04 · photograph (digital archive)

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ISS037-E-025872 (4 Nov. 2013) --- In the International Space Station?s Kibo laboratory, NASA astronaut Michael Hopkins, Expedition 37 flight engineer, conducts a session with a pair of bowling-ball-sized free-flying satellites known as Synchronized Position Hold, Engage, Reorient, Experimental Satellites, or SPHERES. Surrounding the two SPHERES mini-satellites is ring-shaped hardware known as the Resonant Inductive Near-field Generation System, or RINGS.

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Credit lineHopkins with SPHERES RINGS. NASA/JSC, 2013-11-04. Public domain. ID: iss037e025872.

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