Satellite built by UAH students '99 percent' ready for October launch on NASA rocket

The spacecraft conceived and built in Huntsville is virtually ready for launch and blast-off is less than three months away. No, the Space Launch System is not suddenly on an accelerated program. Instead, it's a group of students at the University of Alabama in Huntsville who have been working for more than three years on a tiny satellite that is scheduled to be sent into space in October. Members of the Space Hardware Club at UAH were in San Luis Obispo, Calif., last week on the campus of California Polytechnic State University. The Cal Poly visit was to put the ChargerSat1 through readiness tests as a final hurdle toward the scheduled Oct. 30 launch. More

(Source: The Birmingham News - Aug 3)