Amateur Radio CubeSat launch Wednesday

Four Amateur Radio satellites SwissCube, BeeSat, UWE-2 and ITUpSat are scheduled to launch from the Indian ISRO Satish Dhawan Space Centre on Wednesday September 23.

The ISIS launch weblog says that on Saturday, a pre-launch rehearsal was initiated at 2 am and successfully concluded at 12.30 pm. During this particular procedure all activities during the 10 hours leading up to the launch are rehearsed.

On Monday morning at 8 am, the actual count down clock was started and thereby initiating the actual 49-hour count down process.

Pictures of the satellites and launch vehicle can be seen on the ISIS launch weblog at
http://blog.isilaunch.com/

Further details of the satelittes are available at
http://www.southgatearc.org/news/august2009/
cubesat_launch_blog.htm