| Date | Event |
|---|
| 15 June 2012 | Launch of the ArduSat crowdfunding campaign on KickStarter. The goal was to obtain $35000 in funding. |
| 15 July 2012 | After 30 days of campaign, the project obtained a total pledge of $106330, from 676 "backers". |
| August 2012 | Design of the ArduSat payload prototype.[6] |
| 27 October 2012 | High-altitude test of the ArduSat payload prototype.[7] "The ArduSat payload prototype was carried to 85,000 feet on a high-altitude balloon. During the flight, which took a little over two hours, the payload ran sample programs, ran tests on the sensors, and even snapped some pictures in the upper stratosphere."[8] |
| 20 November 2012 | An agreement is signed between NanoSatisfi and NanoRacks for the deployment of the first two small satellites under the ArduSat program via the NASA and the JAXA, one in summer 2013, the other in fall 2013. That makes ArduSat "the first U.S. Commercial Satellite Deployment from the International Space Station"[9] |
| December 2012 | Design of "an engineering model of the satellite with flight-hardware equivalent components".[6] |
| 20–21 April 2013 | ArduSat is placed as a challenge in NASA's International Space Apps Challenge. The objective of the challenge is to extend the functionality of the ArduSat platform, presented as "an open satellite platform offering on-demand access to Space". 22 projects were submitted to the ArduSat Challenge. |
| 14 May 2013 | Release of the first version of the ArduSatSDK on GitHub. This SDK is made available for the general public to propose and develop experiments for the ArduSat platform. |
| May–July 2013 | Assembly and testing of the final version of ArduSat-1 and ArduSat-X.[6] |
| 3 August 2013 | Launch of the ArduSat-1 and ArduSat-X aboard Kounotori 4 by the H-IIB Launch Vehicle No. 4 from Y2 in Japan, at 19:48:46 UTC[10] |
| 9 August 2013 | The Kounotori 4 (HTV-4) is captured by the ISS' robotic arm Canadarm 2 at 11:22 UTC, led towards a ready-to-latch position on the earth-facing port of the Harmony node, and finally installed on its berthing port at 18:38 UTC.[11][12] |
| 30 Aug – 3 September 2013 | Along with the cargo contained in the HTV-4 Pressurized Logistics Carrier (PLC),[13] ArduSat-1 and ArduSat-X are transferred into the ISS.[14] |
| 15 November 2013 | Flight Engineer Mike Hopkins installs the Japanese Experiment Module Small Satellite Orbital Deployer on the Multi-Purpose Experiment Platform.[15] |
| 19 November 2013 | ArduSat-1 and ArduSat-X are launched from the Kibo Experiment Module's Exposed Facility, (along with the PicoDragon CubeSat). Flight Engineer Koichi Wakata uses the lab's airlock table to pass the Multi-Purpose Experiment Platform outside to Kibo's Exposed Facility. The Japanese robotic arm then unberthes the platform from the Small Fine Arm airlock attach mechanism and maneuvers it into position to release the satellites.[16][17] |
| 15 April 2014 | ArduSat X re-entered the atmosphere |
| 16 April 2014 | ArduSat 1 re-entered the atmosphere |
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