CSSWE was originally scheduled to launch on August 2, 2012 aboard the National Reconnaissance Office Launch-36 (NROL-36).
 However, the launch was delayed three times to provide additional time for resolution of a range instrumentation issue, according to the United Launch Alliance official statement.
 The Atlas V 401 eventually launched on September 13, 2012 from Vandenberg AFB Space Launch Complex 3.

The primary payload aboard NROL-36 was a classified NRO payload, so no spacecraft or orbit information was provided.
 However, there were 11 CubeSats on board the rocket as secondary payloads.
 The launch vehicle delivered the CubeSats into a 480x780 km orbit with an inclination of 65 degrees.
 The CubeSats were carried in eight PPOD dispensers attached to the end of the Centaur rocket via the Aft Bulkhead Carrier, which replaced an unnecessary Helium tank.
 Four of the CubeSats were launched as part of the NASA's Educational Launch of Nanosatellites (ELaNa) program - CSSWE (University of Colorado - Boulder), CINEMA 1 (University of California - Berkeley et al.),
CXBN (Morehead State University), and CP5 (California Polytechnic University).
 The remaining seven were Aeneas (operated by the University of Southern California), two SMDC-ONE (US Army), STARE-A (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), and three AeroCube-4 (Aerospace Corporation).
CSSWE was originally scheduled to launch on August 2, 2012 aboard the National Reconnaissance Office Launch-36 (NROL-36).  However, the launch was delayed three times to provide additional time for resolution of a range instrumentation issue, according to the United Launch Alliance official statement.  The Atlas V 401 eventually launched on September 13, 2012 from Vandenberg AFB Space Launch Complex 3.
The primary payload aboard NROL-36 was a classified NRO payload, so no spacecraft or orbit information was provided.  However, there were 11 CubeSats on board the rocket as secondary payloads.  The launch vehicle delivered the CubeSats into a 480x780 km orbit with an inclination of 65 degrees.  The CubeSats were carried in eight PPOD dispensers attached to the end of the Centaur rocket via the Aft Bulkhead Carrier, which replaced an unnecessary Helium tank.  Four of the CubeSats were launched as part of the NASA's Educational Launch of Nanosatellites (ELaNa) program - CSSWE (University of Colorado - Boulder), CINEMA 1 (University of California - Berkeley et al.), CXBN (Morehead State University), and CP5 (California Polytechnic University).  The remaining seven were Aeneas (operated by the University of Southern California), two SMDC-ONE (US Army), STARE-A (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), and three AeroCube-4 (Aerospace Corporation).
Colorado Student Space Weather Experiment