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PIA23406: ASTERIA CubeSat Before Launch
This image shows Electrical Test Engineer Esha Murty and Integration and Test Lead Cody Colley preparing the ASTERIA spacecraft for mass-properties measurements in April 2017.
 Mission:  CubeSat 
 Product Size:  5760 x 3240 pixels (w x h) 
 Produced By:  JPL 
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA23406.tif (42.61 MB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA23406.jpg (1.192 MB)  

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Left to right: Electrical Test Engineer Esha Murty and Integration and Test Lead Cody Colley prepare the ASTERIA spacecraft for mass-properties measurements in April 2017 prior to spacecraft delivery ahead of launch. ASTERIA was deployed from the International Space Station in November 2017.

For more information about CubeSat see www.jpl.nasa.gov/cubesat/.

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL-Caltech

Image Addition Date:
2020-01-03