Powering up NanoRacks: "Seeing that little LED very exciting"

In this brief audio clip, University of Kentucky professor Jim Lumpp describes the recent installation and powering up of the first NanoRacks Platform on the International Space Station.

The morning began very early for the support team in Kentucky, who were at the CubeLab ground ops consoles (some seen here) shortly after 3 am EDT on July 12 to monitor the live communications feed from NASA, and to respond to any questions from the crew on board the ISS.

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Each NanoRack can host up to sixteen individual "CubeLabs," plug and play micro-laboratories based on the CubeSat form factor. Kentucky Space and its strategic partner, NanoRacks, are currently working with customers needing to do repeatable, reasonably priced micro-G research. 

NASA should soon release video of the installation by astronaut Shannon Walker, who flew from Baikonur Cosmodrome to the station as a flight engineer for Expedition 24/25.

Audio from Dr. Lumpp describing the first data download from a CubeLab is coming as well.

Wayne