CubeSats on the Vega maiden flight

CubeSats are picosatellites of standardised dimensions (cubes of 10 cm per side, with a maximum mass of 1 kg) which can be operated from university or radio amateur ground stations.

As part of the ESA Education programme, seven CubeSats built by European universities will be flown during the debut of Europe's new Vega launch vehicle at the beginning of 2012.

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Hi-res Fully assembled Vega VV01on pad	Hi-res Upper composite transfer to launch pad	Hi-res LARES, ALMASat-1 and CubeSats final preparations
Hi-res Vega payload before encapsulation in fairing	Hi-res LARES, ALMASAT and Cubesats integrated	Hi-res Teams during preparations of the first three CubeSats
Hi-res P-POD deployer	Hi-res First P-POD integration	Hi-res First P-POD integration

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