S.S.E.T.I. Express: Launch Successful!

S.S.E.T.I. Express is currently happily transmitting signals from its place in low-Earth-orbit. It was launched without incident Thursday morning from Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Russia, and university students from a dozen different European countries are probably still rejoicing--between e-mails and data crunching, that is.
Among the experiments currently taking place: testing a cold-gas attitude control system, and a networked ground control system using amateur radio operators. More than 400 students contributed directly to the project and hundreds more have been involved with or motivated by the project in other ways.
Congratulations S.S.E.T.I. Express!