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NASA Launches Satellite Designed and Built by MSU Students

NASA Launches Satellite Designed and Built by MSU Students Published: February 24, 2021 The Ionospheric-Thermospheric Scanning Photometer for Ion-Neutral Studies (IT-SPINS) mission proposes to provide the first two-dimensional (2D) tomographic imaging from a 3U research CubeSat, addressing the basic nature of the nocturnal ionosphere. This 6-month mission aims to strengthen our fundamental understanding for development of ion gradient structures in the topside of the Earth’s ionosphere and secondarily within regional phenomena such as equatorial plasma bubbles (EPBs) or polar patches. (MSU Image) BOZEMAN Culminating years of work, a small satellite designed and built by Montana State University students is set to launch Saturday aboard a cargo resupply rocket bound for the International Space Station.

Small satellite designed and built by MSU students set to launch to the ISS Saturday

BOZEMAN - A “bread loaf-sized” satellite designed and built by Montana State University (MSU) students is set to launch Saturday aboard a rocket bound for the International Space Station. The satellite, called by the acronym IT-SPINS, will dock at the space station until later this spring, then be propelled into orbit and commence a more than six-month mission of measuring the properties of Earth s atmosphere at the edge of outer space a release from MSU says. According to MSU, the project started in 2015 with a $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation and more than 30 MSU students have been involved in developing the satellite.

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