Missions described for last Wednesday's Cubesats

In a story devoted to the primary payload, Spaceflight Now also touched on the missions for the four cubesats launched last week from India. 

Four CubeSat payloads, each about the size of the palm of a hand, were also sent into space during Wednesday's launch.

Two German CubeSats, BEESAT and UWE 2, were built by student teams to test new attitude control systems.

ITUpSAT 1 was developed by Istanbul Technical University in Turkey to examine the performance of a new stability system and take pictures of the Earth.

Another CubeSat, SwissCube, is Switzerland's first satellite and will try to detect a phenomenon known as airglow using an off-the-shelf sensor.

Wayne