“Following more than a year of intense effort channelled into a 10 cm box, the first of ESA’s student satellites to be released from the International Space Station has been accepted for launch. A standard CubeSat measuring 10 x 10 x 10 cm, AAUSat-5 has been designed and built by 30 students from the University of Aalborg in Denmark, backed by ESA’s Education Office. It will be carried to the Station in August, where it will be despatched into space in conjunction with the mission of Danish ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen. “The team will have their small CubeSat deployed into orbit from the International Space Station, the most gigantic space structure ever built,” commented Piero Galeone of the ESA Education Office’s Fly Your Satellite! venture.”