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ELaNa 52

Launch Date: Aug. 4, 2024
Mission: NG-21 SpaceX Falcon 9, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida
Two CubeSats deployed:

  • CySat-1 (3U) – Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
  • DORA (Deployable Optical Receiver Aperture) (3U) – Arizona State University Interplanetary Laboratory, Tempe, Arizona

ELaNa 48

Launch Date: July 9, 2024
Mission: ESA (European Space Agency) Ariane 6, Kourou, French Guiana
One CubeSat mission deployed:

  • CURIE (3U) – University of California at Berkeley

ELaNa 43

Launch Date: July 3, 2024
Mission: Firefly Noise of Summer Alpha FLTA005 Rocket VCLS Demo-2, Firefly SLC-2, Vandenberg Space Force Base, California
Eight CubeSats missions deployed:

  • CatSat (6U) – University of Arizona, Tucson
  • KUbeSat-1 (3U) – University of Kansas, Lawrence
  • MESAT-1 (3U) – University of Maine, Orono
  • R5-S2-2.0 (6U) – NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston
  • R4-S4 (6U) – NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston
  • Serenity (3U) – Teachers in Space, Nanuet, New York
  • SOC-I (2U) – University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
  • TechEdSat-11 (6U) – NASA’s Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California

ELaNa 51

Launch Date: March 12, 2024
Mission: CRS-30 SpaceX Falcon 9, NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida
Four CubeSats missions deployed:

  • Big Red Sat-1 (1U) – University of Nebraska, Lincoln
  • BurstCube (6U) – NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland
  • HyTI (6U) – University of Hawaii at Manoa
  • SNoOPI (6U) – Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana

ELaNa 57

Launch Date: March, 4, 2024
Mission: Transporter-10 SpaceX Falcon 9, Vandenberg Space Force Base in California
One CubeSat mission deployed:

  • M3 (3U) – Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, Missouri

ELaNa 40 and 47
Launch Date: April 15, 2023
Mission: Transporter 7 – SpaceX Falcon 9, Vandenberg Space Force Base in California
2 CubeSat Missions deployed:

  • CIRBE – University of Colorado at Boulder
  • LLITED – The Aerospace Corporation, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, Florida, and University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire

ELaNa 50
Launch Date: March 14, 2023
Mission: CRS-27 – SpaceX Falcon 9, NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida
2 CubeSat missions deployed:

  • ARKSat-1 – University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
  • LightCube – Arizona State University, Tempe

ELaNa 49
Launch Date: Nov. 26, 2022
Mission: CRS-26 – SpaceX Falcon 9, NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida
4 CubeSat Missions to be deployed

  • MARIO – University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
  • petitSat – NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland
  • SPORT – NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama
  • TJREVERB – Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, Fairfax County, Virginia

ELaNa 45
Launch Date: July 14, 2022
Mission: CRS-25 – SpaceX Falcon 9, NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida
5 Cubesat Missions Scheduled to be deployed

  • BeaverCube – Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts
  • CapSat-1 – The Weiss School, Palm Beach Gardens, Florida
  • CLICK A – NASA’s Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California
  • D3 – Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, Florida
  • JAGSAT – University of South Alabama, Mobile

ELaNa 39
Launch Date: July 2, 2022
Mission: STP-28 – Virgin Orbit LauncherOne, Mojave Air and Space Port, California
2 CubeSat missions deployed:

  • GPX2 – NASA’s Langley Research Center, Hampton, Virginia
  • CTIM-FD – University of Colorado at Boulder

ELaNa 44
Launch Date: Feb. 19, 2022
Mission: NG-17 – Antares, NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia
1 Cubesat Mission deployed

  • NACHOS – Los Alamos National Lab, Los Alamos, New Mexico

ELaNa 41
Launch Date: Feb. 10, 2022
Mission: Astra Space Inc., VCLS Demo-2
For mission updates, click here.

  • BAMA-1 – University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa
  • INCA – New Mexico State University, Las Cruces
  • QubeSat – University of California, Berkeley
  • R5-S1 – NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston

ELaNa 29
Launch Date: Jan. 13, 2022
Mission: Virgin Orbit, LauncherOne – Mojave Air and Space Port, California
1 CubeSat Mission deployed

  • PAN – Cornell University, Ithaca, New York

ELaNa 38
Launch Date: Dec. 21, 2021
Mission: SpaceX CRS-24 – Falcon 9, NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida
4 CubeSat Missions deployed

  • DAILI – Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, California
  • GASPACS – Utah State University, Logan
  • PATCOOL – NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida
  • TARGIT – Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta, Georgia

ELaNa 37
Launch Date: Aug. 29, 2021
Mission: SpaceX CRS-23 – Falcon 9, NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida
3 CubeSat Missions deployed

  • PR-CuNaR2 – Inter-American University of Puerto Rico, Bayamón
  • SPACE HAUC – University of Massachusetts, Lowell
  • CAPSat – University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in cooperation with the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada​

ELaNa 34
Launch Date: Sept. 27, 2021
Mission: Landsat-9 – Atlas V, Vandenberg Space Force Base in California
2 CubeSat Missions deployed

  • CUTE – University of Colorado at Boulder 
  • CuPID – Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 

ELaNa 35
Launch Date: Jan. 24, 2021
Mission: SpaceX Transporter-1 – Falcon 9, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida
1 CubeSat Mission deployed

  • PTD-1 – NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California

ELaNa 31
Launch Date: Oct. 2, 2020
Mission: NG-14 – Cygnus, NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia  
3 CubeSat Missions deployed

  • Bobcat-1- Ohio University, Athens
  • NEUTRON-1 – University of Hawaii-Mānoa, Honolulu
  • Spectral Ocean Color Satellite (SPOC) – University of Georgia, Athens

ELaNa 33
Mission: NG-15 – Antares, NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia
1 CubeSat Mission deployed on June 29, 2021

External Deployment

  • IT-SPINS – Montana State University, Bozeman​

ELaNa 33 Mission Fact Sheet

ELaNa 36
Launch Date: June 3, 2021
Mission: SpaceX 22 – Falcon 9, NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida
1 CubeSat Mission deployed

  • RamSat – Oak Ridge Public Schools (Robertsville Middle School), Oak Ridge, Tennessee 

ELaNa 36 Mission Fact Sheet

ELaNa 20
Launch Date: Jan. 17, 2021
Mission: Virgin Orbit, LauncherOne – Mojave, California
9 CubeSat Missions deployed

  • PolarCube – University of Colorado at Boulder
  • MiTEE – University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  • CACTUS-1 – Capitol Technology University, Laurel, Maryland
  • Q-PACE – University of Central Florida, Orlando
  • TechEdSat-7 – NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley
  • RadFXSat-2 – Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee
  • EXOCUBE – California Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo
  • CAPE-3 – University of Louisiana at Lafayette
  • PICs – Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah

ELaNa 20 Mission Fact Sheet

ELaNa 32
Launch Date: June 13, 2020
Mission: “Don’t Stop Me Now” Rideshare, Rocket Lab Launch Complex-1, NZ

  • ANDESITE – Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts

​​​​ELaNa 30
Launch Date: Feb. 14, 2020
ISS Deployment Date: July 13, 2020
Mission: NG-13-Antares, NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia
1 CubeSat Mission deployed

  • TechEdSat-10 – NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley

ELaNa 28
Launch Date: Dec. 5, 2019
ISS Deployment Date: Feb. 1, 2020
Mission: SpaceX-19 – Falcon 9, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida
2 CubeSat Missions deployed

  • CIRiS – Utah State University, Logan
  • EdgeCube – Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, California

ELaNa 25B
Launch Date: Dec. 5, 2019
ISS Deployment Date: Feb. 19, 2020
Mission: Space X-19 – Falcon 9, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida
3 CubeSat Missions deployed

  • AzTechSat-1 – NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley
  • SORTIE – Atmospheric & Space Technology Research Associates, Boulder, Colorado
  • CryoCube – NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida

ELaNa 25A
Launch Date: Nov. 2, 2019
Deployment Dates:  Jan. 31, 2020 (Cygnus) and Feb. 19, 2020 (ISS)
Mission:  NG-12 – Antares II, NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia
7 CubeSat Missions deployed

  • Argus-02 – St. Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri
  • HARP – University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)
  • Phoenix – Arizona State University, Tempe
  • RadSat-U – Montana State University, Bozeman
  • SOCRATES – University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

External Cygnus Deployments

  • HuskySat I – University of Washington, Seattle
  • SwampSat II – University of Florida, Gainesville

ELaNa 27
Launch Date: July 25, 2019
Cygnus Deployment Date: Aug. 7, 2019
Mission:  SpX-18 – Falcon 9, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida
1 CubeSat Mission deployed

  • RFTSat – Northwest Nazarene University, Nampa, Idaho

ELaNa 27 Fact Sheet

ELaNa XV
Launch Date: June 25, 2019
Mission: Space Test Program STP-2 – Falcon 9 Heavy, NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida
3 CubeSat Missions deployed

  • ARMADILLO – University of Texas at Austin
  • LEO (CP9) – California Polytechnic University, San Louis Obispo
  • StangSat – Merritt Island High School, Merritt Island, Florida

Elana 26
Launch Date: April 17, 2019
ISS Deployment Date: July 3, 2019
Mission: NG-11 – Antares II, NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia
1 CubeSat Mission deployed

  • Virginia CubeSat Constellation – Old Dominion Research Foundation, Norfolk, Virginia​

ELaNa 26 Fact Sheet

ELaNa XIX
Launch Date: Dec. 16, 2018
Mission: Rocket Lab Flight 4, Electron, Mahia, New Zealand
10 CubeSat Missions launched

  • ALBUS – NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland
  • CeREs – NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland
  • CHOMPTT – University of Florida, Gainesville
  • CubeSail – University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • DaVinci – North Idaho STEM Charter Academy, Rathdrum, Idaho
  • ISX – SRI International / California Polytechnic University, Menlo Park, California
  • NMTSat – New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, New Mexico
  • RSat – United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland
  • Shields-1 – NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia
  • STF-1 – West Virginia University / NASA IV&V, Morgantown

ELaNa 19 Fact Sheet

ELaNa 21
Launch Date: Dec. 5, 2018
ISS Deployment Date: Jan.31, 2019
Mission: SpaceX-16 – Falcon 9, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida
2 CubeSat Missions deployed

  • TechEdSat-8 – NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley
  • UNITE – University of Southern Indiana, Evansville

ELaNa 24
Launch Date: Dec. 3, 2018
Mission: Spaceflight Industries SSO-A – Falcon 9, Vandenberg Air Force Base, California
2 CubeSat Missions launched

  • IRVINE02 – University High School, Irvine, California
  • WeissSat-1 – Weiss School, Palm Beach Gardens, Florida

ELaNa 16
Launch Date: Nov. 17, 2018
ISS Deployment Date: Feb. 13, 2019
Mission: NG-10 – Antares II, NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia
1 CubeSat Mission deployed

  • KickSat-2 – Cornell University, Ithaca, New York

ELaNa XVIII
Launch Date: Sept. 15, 2018
Mission: Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2) – Delta II, Vandenberg Air Force Base in California
3 CubeSat Missions launched

  • DAVE – California Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo, California
  • ELFINA/B – University of California, Los Angeles, California
  • SurfSat – University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida

ELaNa 18 Fact Sheet

ELaNa 23
Launch Date: May 21, 2018
ISS Deployment Date: July 13, 2018
Mission: OA-9 – Antares, NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia
7 CubeSat Missions deployed

  • EQUiSat – Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
  • CubeRTT – The Ohio State University, Columbus
  • HaloSat – University of Iowa, Iowa City
  • MemSat – Rowan University, Glassboro, New Jersey
  • RadSat-G – Montana State University, Bozeman
  • RainCube – NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California
  • TEMPEST-D,1 – Colorado State University, Fort Collins

ELaNa 23 Fact Sheet

ELaNa XIV
Launch Date: Nov. 18, 2017
Mission: Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS)-1 – Delta II, Vandenberg Air Force Base in California
4 CubeSat Missions launched

  • RadFxSat – Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee
  • EagleSat – Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott, Arizona
  • MiRaTA – Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts
  • MakerSat – Northwest Nazarene University, Nampa, Idaho

ELaNa 14 Fact Sheet

ELaNa XIII
Launch Date: Nov. 12, 2017
ISS Deployment Date: Nov. 20-Dec. 6, 2017
Mission:  OA-8/OA-8E – Antares, NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia
3 CubeSat Missions deployed

  • ISARA – NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California
     ISARA Fact Sheet 25Apr17 
  • EcAMSat – NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley 
     EcAMSat Fact Sheet 31Oct17
  • TechEdSat-6 – NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley

ELaNa 22
Launch Date: Aug. 14, 2017
ISS Deployment Date: Nov. 20, 2017
Mission: SpaceX-12 – Falcon 9, NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida
3 CubeSat Missions deployed

  • ASTERIA – Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts
  • Dellingr – NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland
  • OSIRIS-3U – Pennsylvania State University, University Park

ELaNa 22 Fact Sheet

​​ELaNa XVII
Launch Date: April 18, 2017
ISS Deployment Date: May 16-18, 2017
Mission:  OA-7 – Cygnus/Atlas V, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida
3 CubeSat Missions deployed

  • IceCube – NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland
  • CXBN-2 – Morehead State University, Morehead, Kentucky
  • CSUNSat-1 – California State University, Northridge

ELaNa XVII Fact Sheet

ELaNa-IX
Launch Date: Dec. 6, 2015
ISS Deployment Date: May 16, 2016
Mission: OA-4 – Atlas V, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida
3 CubeSat Missions Deployed

  • CADRE – University of Michigan – Ann Arbor, Michigan
  • MinXSS – University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado
  • STMSat-1 – St. Thomas More Cathedral School, Arlington, Virginia

ELaNa IX Fact Sheet

​ELaNa-VII
Launch Date: Nov. 3, 2015
Mission: ORS-4 – Super Strypi, Pacific Missile Range Facility, Barking Sands, Hawaii
2 CubeSat Missions lost, launch failed

  • Argus – St. Louis University, St. Louis, Mo.
  • PrintSat – Montana State University, Bozeman, Mont.

ELaNa VII Fact Sheet

​​​ELaNa-XII
Launch Date: Oct. 8, 2015
Mission: NROL-55 – Atlas V, Vandenberg Air Force Base, California
4 CubeSat Missions deployed

  • BisonSat – Salish Kootenai College, Pablo, Montana
  • Fox-1A – AMSAT, The Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation, Kensington, Maryland
  • ARC-1 – University of Alaska, Fairbanks
  • LMRSTSat​ – NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California

ELaNa XII Fact Sheet

ELaNa-XI
Launch Date:  May 20, 2015

Mission: AFSPC-5/ULTRASat – Atlas V, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida
1 CubeSat Mission Deployed

  • LightSail-A​ – The Planetary Society, Pasadena, California

ELaNa XI Fact Sheet

ELaNa-X
Launch Date: Jan. 31, 2015
Mission: Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP), Delta II, Vandenberg Air Force Base, California
3 CubeSat Missions deployed

  • FIREBIRD II A,B – Montana State University, Bozeman
  • GRIFEX – NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California
  • EXOCUBE – California Polytechnic University, San Louis Obispo, California

ELaNa X Fact Sheet

ELaNa-VIII
Launch Date: Oct. 28, 2014
Mission: ORB-3 – Antares, NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia
1 CubeSat Mission lost, launch failed

  • RACE – NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California

ELaNa-V
Launch Date: April 18, 2014
Mission: SpaceX-3 – Falcon 9, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla.
5 CubeSat Missions deployed

  • ALL-STAR – University of Colorado at Boulder
  • TSAT – Taylor University, Upland, Indiana
  • KickSat – Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
  • PhoneSat 2.5 – NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley
  • SporeSat – NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley

ELaNa V Fact Sheet

ELaNa-II
​Launch Date: Dec. 6, 2013
Mission: NROL-39 – Atlas V, Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif.
4 CubeSat Missions deployed

  • FIRBIRD I-A/B – Montana State University, Bozeman
  • IPEX – NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California
  • CUNYSAT – Medgar Evers College, City University of New York, Brooklyn, New York
  • M-Cubed-2/COVE – University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

ELaNa II Fact Sheet

ELaNa-IV 
Launch Date: Nov. 19, 2013
Mission: Operationally Responsive Space-3 (ORS-3) – Minotaur, NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia
11 CubeSat Missions deployed

  • KySat-2 – University of Kentucky, Lexington
  • COPPER – St. Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri
  • Trailblazer – University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico
  • TJ3Sat – Thomas Jefferson High School, Arlington, Virginia
  • CAPE-2 – University of Louisiana at Lafayette
  • Ho`oponopono-2 (H-2) – University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu
  • DragonSat-1 – Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  • SwampSat – The University of Florida, Gainesville
  • ChargerSat-1 – University of Alabama in Huntsville
  • Vermont Lunar – Vermont Technical College, Randolph Center, Vermont
  • PhoneSat 2.4 – NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley

ELaNa IV Fact Sheet

ELaNa VI
Launch Date: Sept. 13, 2012
Mission: NROL-36 – Atlas V, Vandenberg Air Force Base, California
4 CubeSat Missions deployed

  • CSSWE – University of Colorado at Boulder
  • CINEMA – University of California at Berkeley
  • CP-5 – California Polytechnic University, San Louis Obispo
  • CXBN – Morehead State University, Morehead, Kentucky

ELaNa VI Fact Sheet

ELaNa-III  
Launch Date: Oct. 28, 2011
Mission: Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (NPP) – Delta II, Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif.
5 CubeSat Missions deployed

  • Explorer-1[Prime] – Montana State University, Bozeman
  • M-Cubed/COVE – University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  • DICE – Utah State University, North Logan
  • Rax-2 – University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  • AubieSat-1 – Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama

ELaNa III Fact Sheet

ELaNa-I 
Launch Date: March 4, 2011 
Mission: Glory – Taurus XL, Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif.
3 CubeSat Missions lost, booster failed to achieve orbital velocity

  • Explorer-1[Prime] – Montana State University, Bozeman
  • HERMES – University of Colorado at Boulder
  • KySat-1 – University of Kentucky, Lexington

ELaNa I Fact Sheet