The satellite, costing about US$50,000 to build — with NASA offering a free launch as part of the ELaNa program — served as a testing model for guidance and navigation pending future launches.

[3] The eventual goal of the project is to build a CubeSat capable of orbiting the Moon.

[4] It was launched on November 19, 2013, from Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia as part of a payload containing two NASA, 11 university, one high school, and 14 Air Force CubeSats.

Vermont Lunar is the only non-NASA/USAF CubeSat from this ELaNa IV launch that is fully working.

This was the first satellite of any kind built by a college or university in New England[citation needed].