Small satellite Red-Eye-2 in the interest of the office of advanced research projects U.S. Department of defense DARPA launched into orbit aboard the International space station (ISS), reported NASA.
On the Agency’s website says that the spacecraft was launched using canadian manipulator SSRMS after its conclusion outside of the station from the Japanese module Kibo.
Red-Eye-2 weighing 110 kilograms, were delivered to the ISS American cargo ship Cygnus in February 2020. In the interest of DARPA it will test satellite communications on-Board computers and control technology thermal regime.
This is the second of three satellites Red-Eye, the first was launched in June 2019.
Now work on the ISS Russian cosmonauts Anatoly Ivanishin and John Wagner, as well as American astronaut Christopher Cassidy, Douglas Hurley and Robert Behnken.
