Accordingly Electronics Weekly reports  that the spacecraft needs to be completed by the end of July 2012, to be ready for shipping from the Netherlands to Russia, where its launch brokered by Delft-based ISIS Launch Services, will be from Yasny in the south, near to the Kazakhstan border.

In March 2011 four payloads and the Fun Cube were selected to fly on UKube-1.  CMOS Imager Demonstrator  Centre for Electronic Imaging at Open University and e2v Technologies. FunCube  AMSAT-UK, 

 Janus (EADS Astrium)  myPocketQub United Kingdom Students for the Exploration & Development of Space (UKSEDS) and TOPCAT,  University of Bath, Chronos Technology, RAL and MSSL.

These have to be integrated onto the spacecraft (right) which measures just 10cm x 10cm x 34cm, from Clyde Space. In October the Glasgow company  emerged with a double deployable solar panel system for CubeSats aimed to increase generated power available on-board a CubeSat mission for a number of different mission scenarios and orbits. 

The system is designed to provide a double faced, so power can be generated from front and back of the deployed arrays, essential for missions that are not sun tracking (ie imaging missions in a sun-synchronous orbit).

The  DD system has an integrated thermal knife and driver designed to be CubeSat structure independant (so  hinges and operations do not require structure modifications) and it is possible to integrate the solar panel to a CubeSat structure as was easily as if it were a body-mounted only panel - making the design highly compatible with the CubeSat plug-n-play approach. The system has passed environmental tests at ambient, +80C and -40C.

"Our target audience is students at both primary and secondary levels, and a simple cheap USB dongle 'ground station' for schools has already been developed," a FUNcube (left)  spokesman said. The 145MHz dongle means satellite signals can be received directly by students.

Reported telemetry will give details of the spacecraft's battery voltages and temperatures to determine its spin rate and attitude by plotting simple graphs. Experimental data and messages can be displayed in an attractive format and provide stimulation and encouragement for students to become interested in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) subjects. There is also a 435 to 145MHz linear transponder for radio amateurs to use during local non-school times
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The FUNCube-1 orbit awaits confirmation, but is expected to be approximately sun synchronous to ensure the spacecraft has the solar illumination and to appear at regular times for educational outreach activities at schools and colleges.