DUTHSat, alongside its QB50-ISS companions, will be launched to the International Space Station (ISS) via the OA7 Orbital ATK Antares rocket inside a Cygnus automated cargo freighter, from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 41 in Florida.
First Phase - Transportation to the International Space Station
The Cygnus cargo freighter
The ATK Antares rocket
Launch
Second Phase - Deployment from the International Space Station
After successfull docking of Cygnus to the ISS, DUTHSat will be loaded by the astronauts into the Nanoracks deployer.
Cygnus docked to ISS
The Nanoracks Cubesat Deployer (NRCSD)
DUTHSat will be deployed from the ISS by the Nanoracks Cubesat Deployer, a rectangular tube that fires the satellite from the ISS, safely into an orbit at about 380km initial altitude, the same as the ISS. Then it will drift down from the orbit of ISS toward the target region of the Thermosphere. QB50-ISS cubesats will be launched periodically in a given timeline.