The satellite was lost in the failure of the Dnepr launch on 26 July 2006.
Completed in April 2005 as a part of the Illinois Tiny Satellite Initiative,[1] the satellite took almost four years to be designed, built and tested by an interdisciplinary team of student engineers.
[2] The payloads included a photometer, a micro-thruster and a camera.
The upgraded IlliniSat-2 bus is now under development for missions such as Lower Atmosphere Ionosphere Coupling Experiment (LAICE) and the CubeSail, both to be launched in 2016.
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