Cygnus

Final checks in the clean room. The nanosatellite TAU SAT1. Photo: Tel Aviv University spokesperson

The first scientific nanosatellite designed and built at Tel Aviv University will be launched into space tomorrow night

The satellite will be launched packed inside a Northrop Grumman Cygnus model supply spacecraft. Northrop Grumman's Cygnus will be launched on Saturday, 19:36 Israel time, then the launch will be at the Atlantic Regional Space Center
The Cygnus payload spacecraft that carried the laboratory to the International Space Station (Photo: NASA).

An Israeli space laboratory has arrived at the International Space Station

The Cygnus spacecraft approaches the International Space Station, 9/1/14. Photo: NASA TV

The private spacecraft - the Israeli experiments

The Cygnus spacecraft approaches the International Space Station (Orbital Express Photo

On the way to space: an unmanned private spacecraft