The mission includes development of standardized payload subsystems and manuals that facilitate increasingly complex future payloads and the maximum transfer of corporate knowledge to future student participants. Additionally, the mission will provide opportunities for students to design, implement, and test innovative systems through hands-on experience and collaboration between disciplines, universities and practicing aerospace engineers and scientists.

May 2001

Critical Design Review

January - August 2001

Construction

July - December 2001

Integration and Testing

January 2002

Mission Readiness Review

March 2002

Launch