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Student-Made Satellite Goes Into Orbit

Posted by Zonk on from the all-i-did-in-college-was-play-video-games dept.

College Student writes "A Satellite built by aerospace students from 23 university groups successfully took off from Plesetsk, in northern Russia. From the article: 'A Russian booster rocket successfully carried a satellite designed by students into a low Earth orbit yesterday for the European Space Agency under a programme intended to help to inspire and train future aerospace workers.'"

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  1. Unfortunetly.... by dduardo · · Score: 5, Funny

    Some students made up some results and now the satellite is in the Pacific Ocean.

  2. S-S-SETI? by jettoki · · Score: 5, Funny

    Student Space Exploration and Technology Initiative (SSETI) Express spacecraft...

    In other news, the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute has filed for damages under intergalactic copyright law, fearing that hostile alien intelligences may mistake the antics of college students for examples of actual human behavior; an error which would inevitably lead to the mercy-killing of our species.

  3. heard on campus by Tablizer · · Score: 2, Funny

    Brad: "My gum is where???"

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    Table-ized A.I.