{"id":17613,"date":"2015-09-21T04:48:45","date_gmt":"2015-09-21T11:48:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/beautiful-images-of-astronauts-releasing-nanosatellites-into-space"},"modified":"2017-06-04T11:38:14","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T18:38:14","slug":"beautiful-images-of-astronauts-releasing-nanosatellites-into-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/beautiful-images-of-astronauts-releasing-nanosatellites-into-space","title":{"rendered":"Beautiful Images of Astronauts Releasing Nanosatellites Into Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/beautiful-images-of-astronauts-releasing-nanosatellites-into-space.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OlegMKS\/status\/501842518703894529\" target=\"_blank\">Oleg Artemyev<\/a>. In his hand is a tiny satellite, known as a nanosatellite, called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chasqui.uni.edu.pe\/\" target=\"_blank\">Chasqui 1<\/a>\u2014and he\u2019s about to throw it into the wilds of space.<\/p>\n<p>Well, throw might not be quite the right word\u2014Artemyev would favor \u201cdeploy\u201d\u2014but it\u2019s not far off. Alexander Skvortsov and Oleg Artemyev <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/content\/station-spacewalkers-deploy-nanosatellite-install-and-retrieve-science\/index.html#.U_Re3vl_vTo\" target=\"_blank\">conducted a 5-hour spacewalk<\/a> on Monday, and part of that involved letting the satellite drift slowly into orbit, as well removing and installing some new scientific equipment. <\/p>\n<p>You can see pictures of Artemyev releasing the satellite below\u2014and choose your own word for the process. [<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OlegMKS\/status\/501842518703894529\" target=\"_blank\">Oleg Artemyev<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/content\/station-spacewalkers-deploy-nanosatellite-install-and-retrieve-science\/index.html#.U_Ru5bxdUdp\" target=\"_blank\">NASA<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/es.gizmodo.com\/asi-despliega-un-astronauta-un-nanosatelite-en-el-espac-1624322281\" target=\"_blank\">Gizmodo ES<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/this-is-how-astronauts-release-nanosatellites-into-spac-1624329404?utm_campaign=socialflow_gizmodo_facebook&utm_source=gizmodo_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is Oleg Artemyev. In his hand is a tiny satellite, known as a nanosatellite, called Chasqui 1\u2014and he\u2019s about to throw it into the wilds of space. Well, throw might not be quite the right word\u2014Artemyev would favor \u201cdeploy\u201d\u2014but it\u2019s not far off. Alexander Skvortsov and Oleg Artemyev conducted a 5-hour spacewalk on Monday, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17613"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64134,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17613\/revisions\/64134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}