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The EPFL Spacecraft Team has set an aspiring goal of launching a couple of satellites by 2023.

Date Time EPFL moves boldly into space with its CHESS satellites The EPFL Spacecraft Team has set itself the ambitious goal of launching two satellites by 2023. With this bold initiative, this student team hopes to gain further insight into the chemical composition of the outermost layers of our atmosphere. One out of two CHESS satellites Designing a satellite and launching it into space is no run-of-the-mill project. Rather, it’s one that forever marks the early careers of the students who take part – just ask the EPFL students who designed the SwissCube, a 1U CubeSat (a small standardiz...

>> fine here. >> okay. good luck. >> thank you, gunner. >> see you around, gunner. >> proceed. >> roger. we are proceeding with closing the hatch. >> roger. >> the hatch is closed. >> roger. >> the hatch is closing, and we're beginning to purge the cabin to bring it to the proper atmosphere for launch, which is a combination of oxygen and nitrogen, 60% oxygen and 40% nitrogen. of course, the astronauts themselves are breathing pure oxygen through their space suits. coming up shortly will be another key test with the launch crew from the launch crew and the spacecraft team combine together with...

Any adjustment? >> roger. >> right here. >> okay. good luck. >> thank you, gunner. >> all right. closing the hatch. >> roger. 441, the cm hatch is closed. >> all righty. >> the hatch is closed and we're beginning to purge the cabin to bring it to the proper atmosphere for launch, which is a combination of oxygen and nitrogen, 60% oxygen and 40% nitrogen atmosphere. the astronauts, themselves, are breathing pure oxygen through their space suits. coming up shortly will be another key test in which hopefully the launch crew and the spacecraft team combine together with the commander neil armstron...

Crew from the launch creek view and the spacecraft team combined together with the commander neil armstrong to make a thorough check of the emergency detection system. this is the system that will signal the astronauts in the cabin and if anything goes wrong below them. we use the ground-based computer to accomplish this test. it will take some 30 minutes. neil armstrong will being doing most of the work in the spacecraft responding as different lights signifying different difficulties are presented to him. countdown continuing. this is kennedy launch control.