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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. Cal Poly was part of the launch by Nf1nk · · Score: 4, Informative

    http://littonlab.atl.calpoly.edu/
    The article was notibly short on details, so here is a link to one of the satellites in the launch. This was an impressive feat for the schools involved and much was learned from the process.

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  2. Re:Cal Poly was part of the launch by Nf1nk · · Score: 4, Informative

    http://sseti.gte.tuwien.ac.at/express/mop/ This is the SSETI Express team home page.

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