iss061e052148 (11/20/2019) --- An external view of the deployment of the RWASAT-1 CubeSat from the JEM Small Satellite Orbital Deployer aboard the International Space Station (ISS). RWanda Satellite-1 (RWASAT-1) is the first Rwandan 3-Unit (3U) CubeSat is built under a partnership of the Rwanda Utilities Regulatory Authority (RURA) and Tokyo University, to help develop a space engineering capacity in Rwanda. RWASAT-1 has two cameras for monitoring the status of agriculture, and a receiver for data collection from ground based sensors.
Date November 20, 2019