- ISS EarthKAM
ISS EarthKAM (previously known as simply EarthKAM, and KidSat) is a
NASA sponsored program started in1996 that allows middle school students to request high-quality photographs of their planet taken from theSpace Shuttle andInternational Space Station . Since its creation, thousands of photographs of Earth have been taken by digital cameras on select space flights and the International Space Station. The digitized images are transmitted from orbit via aTDRSS Ku-band satellite link toJohnson Space Center Mission Control.Sally Ride has contributed greatly to the operations of the project. It is run as a cooperation betweenUniversity of California, San Diego and theJet Propulsion Laboratory .Past Shuttle and ISS missions
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STS-76 , as KidSat
*STS-81 , as KidSat
*STS-86 , as KidSat
*STS-89 , as EarthKAM
*STS-93 , as EarthKAM
*STS-99 , as EarthKAM
* See also [http://www.earthkam.ucsd.edu/public/about/missions/index.shtml list of missions]External links
* http://www.earthkam.ucsd.edu/
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