A satellite built by Utah State University’s Get Away Special Team successfully launched from the International Space Station last week, the culmination of a ten-year student-led project. The four-inch cube
SpaceX pushed a planned Starlink launch from Kennedy Space Center to Wednesday, the same day it plans a California launch while new rocket company Astra Space may finally get its first launch from the Space Coast this weekend.
Students from the University of Nebraska at Omaha have once again sent experiments to near-space through two high-altitude balloon launches – this time in support of a unique opportunity to launch a small satellite into orbit.
NASA to launch Rhodes College satellite into space
April 21, 2021
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) Rhodes College in Tennessee says NASA will launch into space a small satellite being designed and built at the liberal arts school.
The Memphis-based college said in a news release that the satellite is among 14 small research satellites chosen by NASA for the 2021 CubeSat Launch Initiative. The 4-inch by 4-inch by 4-inch (10-centimeter by 10-centimeter by 10-centimeter) satellite will be sent into space between 2022 and 2025, the college said.
The RHOK-SAT satellite is being built by students, faculty and staff at the college. It will test the space hardiness of novel solar cells for lunar and planetary missions, the college said.
UL Lafayette students CAPE-3 satellite collecting data for NASA as it orbits Earth
UL Lafayette / Virgin Orbit
A tiny satellite built by student researchers at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette was launched into space Sunday to measure radiation levels as it orbits Earth. âThe CubeSatâ left the Mojave Air and Space Port in California inside a Virgin Orbit LauncherOne rocket attached beneath a wing of a customized Boeing 747.
By: Charlie Bier, UL Lafayette Office of Communications
Posted at 8:41 AM, Jan 19, 2021
and last updated 2021-01-19 14:03:09-05
A tiny satellite built by student researchers at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette will help NASA develop technology designed to keep astronauts safe.