An August launch will take four more cubesats to orbit aboard an Indian PSLV, according to this news item.
Besides Rubin 9.1 and Rubin 9.2 nano satellites from Germany, the four cubesats lined up for the mission on board India's workhorse rocket Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle are: Beesat, built by Technical University Berlin, UWE-2 (University of Wuerzburg Germany), ITU-pSat (Istanbul Technical University Turkey) and SwissCube-1 (Ecole Polytechnique Federal de Lausanne, Switzerland).
According to southgatearc.org, BeeSat "will demonstrate the use of coin sized micro reaction wheels for attitude control of pico satellites in orbit...." More about SwissCube may be found here. There is also some video available on YouTube, here and here.
Wayne
I would like to point out that the launch for these 4 cubesats has been brokered by ISIS of The Netherlands (www.isispace.nl)
Posted by: Gerard Aalbers | July 04, 2009 at 09:25 AM