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Final checks in the clean room. The nanosatellite TAU SAT1. Photo: Tel Aviv University spokesperson

The first scientific nanosatellite designed and built at Tel Aviv University will be launched into space tomorrow night

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The satellite will be launched packed inside a Northrop Grumman Cygnus model supply spacecraft. Northrop Grumman's Cygnus will be launched on Saturday, 19:36 Israel time, then the launch will be at the Atlantic Regional Space Center
The Cygnus payload spacecraft that carried the laboratory to the International Space Station (Photo: NASA).

An Israeli space laboratory has arrived at the International Space Station

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Launch of Orbital's Cygnus supply spacecraft aboard a ULA Delta V rocket from Cape Canaveral, 6/12/15. Photo: NASA

The supply spacecraft Cygnus returns to the space station, this time on a replacement rocket

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The Cygnus spacecraft approaches the International Space Station, 9/1/14. Photo: NASA TV

The private spacecraft - the Israeli experiments

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Orbital Sciences' Antares rocket launch on January 9, 2014 followed by the launch at the Wallops Space Center, Virginia on a supply mission to the International Space Station on the Cygnus spacecraft. Photo: NASA

Another successful launch for a private American supply spacecraft to the space station

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Separation of the first stage of the Anthras rocket carrying the Cygnus spacecraft, 18/3/13. Screenshot from NASA TV

Orbital Sciences' Cygnus payload spacecraft was successfully launched (photo gallery)

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The Cygnus spacecraft approaches the International Space Station (Orbital Express Photo

On the way to space: an unmanned private spacecraft

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