Kibo

ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti took this over-exposure image of the Japan's Kibo laboratory that is part of the International Space Station during her six-month Futura mission in 2015.
 

The laboratory is renowned for its volume and extra features such as its external robotic arm, an airlock to send experiments outside, and an external facility to expose experiments to space. Nanosats can be launched from Kibo through the airlock, making the Station a base for deploying satellites as well as a weightless research centre for biology, physics and medicine.

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