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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. Slash site for remote sensing by Lord+Satri · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Ok, this is a shameless plug, but still a useful one :-) For those interested in Remote Sensing, as this story is about, there is a new slashsite, called http://slashgisrs.org/ that targets the RS and GIS crowd. The site is about one month old. Cheers :-)

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  2. Re:Science lead... by pin_gween · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    please please please have a good guy scientist who gets the girl (or a good gal scientist who gets the guy) at least once a decade

    How about The Nutty Professor
      that was 1996, so they have another year to meet the goal.
     
      Note I do not reference the sequel in 2000, I assumed you meant at least a decent "scientist gets the girl movie."

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