The Nanosatellite Launch System (NLS) is a series of

satellite A satellite or an artificial satellite is an object, typically a spacecraft, placed into orbit around a celestial body. They have a variety of uses, including communication relay, weather forecasting, navigation ( GPS), broadcasting, scient ...

launch missions launched 2003–2010, coordinated by the Space Flight Laboratory (SFL) of the University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies (UTIAS). NLS has provided low-cost launch services for a number of

nanosatellite A small satellite, miniaturized satellite, or smallsat is a satellite of low mass and size, usually under . While all such satellites can be referred to as "small", different classifications are used to categorize them based on mass. Satellites c ...

Missions

NLS 1

* Launch date: 30 June 2003 * Launch vehicle:

Rockot Rokot ( meaning ''Rumble'' or ''Boom''), also transliterated Rockot, was a Soviet Union (later Russian) space launch vehicle that was capable of launching a payload of into a Earth orbit with 63° inclination. It was based on the UR-100N (S ...

* Launch site:

Plesetsk Cosmodrome Plesetsk Cosmodrome () is a Russian spaceport located in Mirny, Arkhangelsk Oblast, near the town of Plesetsk, from which it takes its name. Until 2025 and the commissioning of the Andøya Space, Andøya base in Norway, it was the only operati ...

* Participants: CanX-1, AAUSAT-1, DTUsat

NLS 4

* Launch date: 28 April 2008 * Launch vehicle:

Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle The Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) is an expendable medium-lift launch vehicle designed and operated by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). It was developed to allow India to launch its Indian Remote Sensing (IRS) satellite ...

(PSLV-C9) * Launch site:

Satish Dhawan Space Centre Satish Dhawan Space Centre – SDSC (formerly Sriharikota Range – SHAR) is the primary spaceport of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), located in Sriharikota, Tirupati district, Andhra Pradesh. The spaceport is located on an isl ...

, Second Launch Pad * Participants: CanX-2, AAUSAT-II, COMPASS-1, Delfi-C³, CUTE-1.7+APD II and SEEDS II

NLS 5

* Launch date: 28 April 2008 * Launch vehicle:

(PSLV-C9) * Launch site:

, Second Launch Pad * Participants: CanX-6/NTS

NLS 6

* Launch date : July 12, 2010 * Launch vehicle:

(PSLV-C15) * Launch site:

, First Launch Pad * Participants: AISSat-1, TIsat-1

NLS 8

* Launch date : 25 February 2013 * Launch vehicle:

(PSLV-C15) * Launch site:

, First Launch Pad * Participants:

Sapphire Sapphire is a precious gemstone, a variety of the mineral corundum, consisting of aluminium oxide () with trace amounts of elements such as iron, titanium, cobalt, lead, chromium, vanadium, magnesium, boron, and silicon. The name ''sapphire ...

, NEOSSat, TUGSAT-1, UniBRITE-1,

STRaND-1 STRaND-1 (Surrey Training, Research and Nanosatellite Demonstrator 1) is a failed 3U CubeSat developed by Surrey University's Surrey Space Centre (SSC) and Surrey Satellite Technology (SSTL). The nanosatellite was launched into orbit on board a ...

,Smartphone nanosatellite Space researchers at the University of Surrey's Surrey Space Centre (SSC) and SSTL have developed STRaND-1
"SSTL.co.uk" retrieved 14 Feb 2012 AAUSAT3

Notes

References

F. M. Pranajaya, R. E. Zee, P. L. Thomsen, M. Blanke, R. Wisniewski, L. Franklin, and J. Puig-Suari, "An Affordable, Low-Risk Approach to Launching Research Spacecraft as Tertiary Payloads," Proc. 17th Annual AIAA/USC Conference on Small Satellites, Logan, Utah, Aug. 2003.
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