University of Virginia Prof., Christopher Goyne, Associate Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, discusses the CubeSat Program, its importance, and its advantages with Les Sinclair. At 4:46 p.m. on Wednesday, April 17, a spacecraft called Libertas CubeSat, designed and built by UVA undergraduate students, will blast off to the International Space Station aboard an Antares rocket from Wallops Flight Facility on the Eastern Shore.

LINKS: The rocket launch may be viewed from Central Virginia, looking to the East Southeast, 3 minutes after liftoff: https://sites.wff.nasa.gov/wmsc/#/map The NASA countdown clock is here: https://sites.wff.nasa.gov/wmsc/#/home The launch will be livestreamed by NASA TV: https://www.nasa.gov/nasalive