"On September 12, NRL will launch SpinSat to the International Space Station from Cape Canaveral aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 resupply mission. A few weeks later, says Nicholas, "The astronauts are going to unpack it out of this big block of foam that we ship it in." They'll install the arm plugs and then put it on a plate attached to a spring, called CYCLOPS. SpinSat/CYCLOPS will go into a sealed-off airlock, then the astronauts use a robotic arm to pull them outside the station and orient SpinSat for deployment. They "point it to where [they] want, and then hit the button—and off goes the satellite. A tiny little push." -
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