It was launched along with the second Cygnus spacecraft and 28 Flock-1 CubeSats aboard an Antares 120 carrier rocket flying from Pad 0B at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport on Wallops Island to the International Space Station.

Both attitude and thermal control sub-systems are implemented passively for simplicity and safety.

The main payload is amateur radio FM mode V/U voice repeater.

He-100 COTS transceiver is used for establishing and maintaining radio communication with the ground station.

[9] Ground control software is written in Erlang and has a web interface, served by Yaws.

[10] Communication is done using custom protocol, which is built on top of reduced set of AX.25 and handles full-duplex data transfer, when required.

[12] The team of engineers subsequently announced that it will try to keep the onboard FM repeater operative for the rest of the mission.