The Nanosatellite Launch System (NLS) is a series of

satellite A satellite or artificial satellite is an object intentionally placed into orbit in outer space. Except for passive satellites, most satellites have an electricity generation system for equipment on board, such as solar panels or radioisotope ...

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 ca ...

Missions

NLS 1

* Launch date: 30 June 2003 * Launch vehicle:

Rockot Rokot (russian: Рокот meaning ''Rumble'' or ''Boom''), also transliterated Rockot, was a 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 (SS-1 ...

* Launch site:

Plesetsk Cosmodrome Plesetsk Cosmodrome ( rus, Космодром «Плесецк», r=Kosmodrom "Plesetsk", p=kəsmɐˈdrom plʲɪˈsʲet͡sk) is a Russian spaceport located in Mirny, Arkhangelsk Oblast, about 800 km north of Moscow and approximately 200&n ...

* 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) satellites ...

(PSLV-C9) * Launch site:

Satish Dhawan Space Centre Satish Dhawan Space Centre - SDSC (formerly Sriharikota Range - SHAR) is a rocket launch centre (spaceport) operated by Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). It is located in Sriharikota, Tirupati district of Andhra Pradesh. Sriharikota R ...

, Second Launch Pad * Participants: CanX-2,

AAUSAT-II AAUSAT-II (Aalborg University CubeSat no 2), is the second student-built CubeSat built and operated by students from Aalborg University in Denmark. It was launched 28 April 2008 05:53:51 UTC from Satish Dhawan Space Centre in India on a Polar ...

COMPASS-1 Compass-1 (also known as Compass One) is a German amateur CubeSat picosatellite, built and operated in the late 2000s by Aachen University of Applied Science. It was launched by the Indian Space Research Organisation, aboard a PSLV rocket as a se ...

, 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, chromium, vanadium, or magnesium. The name sapphire is derived via the Latin "sapphir ...

, NEOSSat,

TUGSAT-1 TUGSAT-1, also known as BRITE-Austria and CanX-3B, is the first Austrian satellite. It is an optical astronomy spacecraft operated by the Graz University of Technology as part of the international BRIght-star Target Explorer programme. Details ...

UniBRITE-1 UniBRITE-1 is, along with TUGSAT-1, one of the first two Austrian satellites to be launched. Along with TUGSAT, it operates as part of the BRIght Target Explorer constellation of satellites. The two spacecraft were launched aboard the same rocke ...

, STRaND-1,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 AAUSat-3, (Aalborg University CubeSat-3), is the third CubeSat built and operated by students from the Aalborg University in Denmark. It was launched on 25 February 2013 from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in India on a Polar Satellite Launch ...

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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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