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NASA / JSC · 2024-09-03 · photograph (digital archive)

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iss071e582124 (Sept. 3, 2024) --- NASA astronaut and Expedition 71 Flight Engineer Mike Barratt removes the multipurpose experiment platform (MPEP) from the Kibo laboratory module's airlock. The MPEP was attached to the Japanese robotic arm and carried a small satellite orbital deployer into the vacuum of space pointed away from the International Space Station. Afterward, a series of CubeSats were released into Earth orbit from the deployer for educational and research purposes.

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