The SSETI Express satellite scheduled to launch at 06:52 UTC on Thursday 27th October on board a Kosmos 3M launcher. SSETI Express is the first pan-European student microsatellite, built by a distributed team of university students and radio amateurs throughout Europe (within SSETI), and sponsored by the Education Department of ESA and is due to launch from Plesetsk, Russia.

http://www.southgatearc.org/news/oct...ign_update.htm

http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=18432

Next week, the two ESA missions Venus Express and SSETI Express will be launched, on 26 and 27 October 2005, respectively.