The goal of the Basic Low Earth Orbit (BasicLEO) project is to explore the technologies required for building a viable CubeSat use SPARK/Ada for the flight control software. This project's predecessor was the Alaskan Ice Buoy Project that helped us learn about the CubeSat Kit hardware that is also being used in this project
Our CubeSat was launched into low Earth orbit as part of NASA's ELaNa IV program on the Air Force ORS-3 mission. The launch vehicle was an Orbital Sciences Minotaur 1 rocket launched from Wallops Island, VA, on November 19, 2013 (launch video). The mission, still ongoing, has been a success! We have downloaded many pictures from our spacecraft as well as other telemetry data.