title: Nanosatellite Launch System
text: # Nanosatellite Launch System
  
  The Nanosatellite Launch System (NLS) is a series of satellite launch missions launched 2003–2010, coordinated by the Space Flight Laboratory (SFL) of the University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies (UTIAS).
  
  NLS has provided low-cost launch services for a number of nanosatellites.
  
  ## Missions
  
  ### NLS 1
  
  * Launch date: 30 June 2003
  * Launch vehicle: Rockot
  * Launch site: Plesetsk Cosmodrome
  * Participants: CanX-1, AAUSAT-1, DTUsat
  
  ### NLS 4
  
  * Launch date: 28 April 2008
  * Launch vehicle: Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C9)
  * Launch site: Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Second Launch Pad
  * Participants: CanX-2, AAUSAT-II, COMPASS-1, $Delfi-C^3,$ CUTE-1.7+APD II and SEEDS II
  
  ### NLS 5
  
  * Launch date: 28 April 2008
  * Launch vehicle: Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C9)
  * Launch site: Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Second Launch Pad
  * Participants: CanX-6/NTS
  
  ### NLS 6
  
  * Launch date : July 12, 2010
  * Launch vehicle: Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C15)
  * Launch site: Satish Dhawan Space Centre, First Launch Pad
  * Participants: AISSat-1, TIsat-1
  
  ### NLS 8
  
  * Launch date : 25 February 2013
  * Launch vehicle: Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C15)
  * Launch site: Satish Dhawan Space Centre, First Launch Pad
  * Participants: Sapphire, NEOSSat, TUGSAT-1, UniBRITE-1, STRaND-1, AAUSAT3
  