The UK space Agency and Astrium have approved the final design of UKube-1 – the UK’s first CubeSat.

On Thursday and Friday, November 3-4, a young team of engineers from Clyde Space presented their final design to a team of experts for the Critical Design Review (CDR) – the typical ‘gateway’ for space missions to proceed into the flight build and implementation phase.

Full story at

http://www.uk.amsat.org/2011/11/08/ukube-1-final-design-approved/

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