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>> Dan Huot: So on board the
International Space Station

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today some pretty
exciting stuff happening.

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Some small satellites,
microsatellites being deployed

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from one of the airlocks
on board the station.

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Here to tell me a little bit
more today is Masazumi Miyake.

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He's the International Space
Station Program Manager

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for JAXA, the Japanese
Aerospace Exploration Agency.

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Masazumi, thanks so much
for being here today.

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>> Masazumi Miyake:
It's my pleasure.

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>> Dan Huot: First off, tell me
a little bit about this program?

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It's the small satellite
orbital deployment program.

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Tell me a little bit
about it real quick?

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>> Masazumi Miyake: Okay.

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[inaudible] small
satellite department program.

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It's provided a good
opportunity for the potential.

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Cubesats use a wall

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to [inaudible] some
many launch capability

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into the [inaudible]
the ISS and compare

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with the other some
opportunity like [inaudible].

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It's very good condition,
like less vibration

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and also the many
satellite can be launched

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by the HTV transfer be cool or
other the commercial be cool

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like a dragon and
the [inaudible]

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and also the rough time
check out could be very easy

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by cool before they are --

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>> Dan Huot: Yeah.

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>> Masazumi Miyake:
-- deployment.

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So they very easy to
handle the satellite.

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So I hope that many people
can use this opportunity.

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>> Dan Huot: Yeah.

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So just a really unique way
to launch satellites basically

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as opposed to, you
know, launching them

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up on a launch vehicle like --

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>> Masazumi Miyake: Yeah.

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>> Dan Huot: -- a normal one.

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And they're very small.

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And one thing you mentioned
was, you know, the crew can kind

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of do a final checkout of it.

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What are some of the things?

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Because Koichi was
responsible --

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>> Masazumi Miyake: Okay.

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>> Dan Huot: -- for
all this on board.

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What are some of the things
he was doing to get it ready?

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>> Masazumi Miyake:

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Let me clarify the exact
spots we were doing

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that the robotics arm and
binary graphs for some

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of their deployment
mechanism for our airlock.

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And crew can do this
from [inaudible] back

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to the satellite and
set up the satellite

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onto our airlock pallet.

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[inaudible] that's -- the
crew can install the --

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or the cubesat to the --
our deployment mechanism

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and then set up the airlock.

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And we can crawl to the airlock,

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then our ground operator
can open the hutch

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and deploy the satellite.

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And he's a crew -- both crews

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and the ground team can
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and also the -- send a command,

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can be done by crew
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It's up to --

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>> Dan Huot: Okay.

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>> Masazumi Miyake: -- the
condition of the crew time.

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If crew is very busy,
our ground team can have

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to deploy by ground.

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But important things that
crew only can check out --

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>> Dan Huot: Yeah.

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>> Masazumi Miyake: -- and
also the -- set up the airlock.

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>> Dan Huot: Yeah.

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>> Masazumi Miyake: That's a
very important job by crew.

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>> Dan Huot: Well,
yeah, and, I mean,

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it's great when you can
have that kind of crew

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or ground interaction
with the device.

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I know we have some video

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from that deployment a
little bit earlier today.

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Just tell us a little bit
about what's happening here?

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So what -- I mean, what are
we looking at right here?

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>> Masazumi Miyake: Yes.

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Now the -- our robotic's
arm, we're waiting

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to open the airlock
outside door.

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Now just airlock the
table, just deployed

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from the inside to the outside.

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And crew have already
set up the --

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our deployment mechanism
on the airlock table

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and you can see there's
some graphs, the fixture.

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And now the -- our robotic's arm
[inaudible] our robotic's arm is

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just waiting to [inaudible]
to deploy the

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such deployment mechanisms.

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>> Dan Huot: And again, this
is all taking place on --

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>> Masazumi Miyake: Yeah.

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>> Dan Huot: -- kind

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of the exposed facility
outside [inaudible].

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>> Masazumi Miyake: Yes.

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Yes. It's a very
unique capability

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and only [inaudible]
provide this capability.

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And this is the -- our JSSO,
the deployment mechanism.

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And it's just big table with our
[inaudible] experiment platform.

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>> Masazumi Miyake: And the
three, each of three cubesat,

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it's a 10 square
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Cubesats can be installed.

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So total, six cubesat could
be deployment, deployed.

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>> Dan Huot: So they
could do six at a time.

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They did three --

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>> Masazumi Miyake: Yeah.

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>> Dan Huot: -- today.

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The --

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>> Masazumi Miyake:
The next number --

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today three of them [inaudible]
can have already be deployed,

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and tomorrow that you -- we
have the big size, the cubesat.

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>> Masazumi Miyake:
It's 10 centimeter

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and 30 centimeters,
big satellite.

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>> Dan Huot: So these cubes
can come in multiple sizes?

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>> Masazumi Miyake:
Yes, multiples.

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>> Dan Huot: Okay.

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>> Dan Huot: Can you tell me a
little bit about the satellites

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that were deployed this morning?

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>> Masazumi Miyake: Okay.

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That today the three cubesat
were deployed [inaudible].

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And one is Japanese satellite.

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It looks Japanese.

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But one satellite
was [inaudible]

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by the Vietnam National
Satellite Center,

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some Corporation
of Tokyo University

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in Japan, and do satellite.

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The -- it's kind of a skill
training and deployment

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for young engineer
in the Vietnam,

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the people to help to have.

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They could be trained to
develop the spacecraft --

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>> Dan Huot: Okay.

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>> Masazumi Miyake: --
using the small satellite.

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So it's a very honor for us
to cooperate with Vietnam,

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the people on the satellite.

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And the other two, [inaudible]
two satellite were developed

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by the commercial, US
commercial company.

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>> Dan Huot: Okay.

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>> Masazumi Miyake: And
[inaudible] company.

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just they have some open
platform tied [inaudible]

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program which can be the
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So any type of the
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show some picture or something.

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Very different [inaudible]
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>> Dan Huot: Yeah.

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>> Masazumi Miyake: --
applied for this satellite.

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>> Dan Huot: So really,
really diverse amount

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of options available
for the satellites.

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>> Masazumi Miyake: Yeah.

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>> Dan Huot: And a lot easier
to get into possibly --

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>> Masazumi Miyake: Yeah.

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>> Dan Huot: -- than just sort

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of traditional [multiple
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>> Masazumi Miyake:
Many different.

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The user can use one satellite.

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That's very --

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>> Dan Huot: Yeah.

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>> Masazumi Miyake: -- unique.

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>> Dan Huot: And I know you
guys got some big plans,

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you know, kind of coming up --

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>> Masazumi Miyake: Yeah.

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>> Dan Huot: -- for what you're
hoping to do with this program.

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What are some of those?

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>> Masazumi Miyake: Yeah.

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[inaudible] is very
unique capability.

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And now we have done
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last year and this year.

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>> Dan Huot: Yep.

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>> Masazumi Miyake: And in
the future we have the other,

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some different deployment
mechanism developed by NASA

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or [inaudible] commercial
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there's some big size satellite
also can be deployed by --

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>> Dan Huot: Okay.

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>> Masazumi Miyake: -- NASA

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and you deployment mechanism
[inaudible] cyclops may be the

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next [multiple speakers].

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There's some big size,

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their own deployment mechanism.

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So our JAXA side can accommodate
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of the deployment
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our airlock and the [inaudible].

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And also the other,
some aspect we also --

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the three [inaudible]
outside the equipment.

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>> Masazumi Miyake: We can
[inaudible] the equipment

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through the airlock --

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>> Dan Huot: Oh.

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>> Masazumi Miyake: -- to
the inside and we can repair

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such equipment and
the [inaudible].

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>> Masazumi Miyake:
-- joint operation,

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the transfer interface.

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So we hope to many
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The mission could be used --

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>> Dan Huot: Yeah.

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by our very unique capability
[inaudible] and the airlock.

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>> Dan Huot: Yeah.

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Like you said, very
unique, very robust --

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>> Masazumi Miyake: Yeah.

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>> Dan Huot: -- capability

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on board the International
Space Station.

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And the cubes have
deployed this morning,

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just one of the projects.

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That is going to be let

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out of the Japanese module
on board the station.

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So again, Masazumi, thank
you so much for coming

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on International Space Station
Program Manager for JAXA.

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I really appreciate it.

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Again, really cool project.

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And I look forward to
some of the other projects

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that are going to
be operating outside

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of the Kibo airlock
in the future.

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Yeah.

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>> Masazumi Miyake: Thank you.

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It's my pleasure.