2013-11-21, 07:40
High School Students Send Tiny Satellite into Space
Yesterday a team of high school students put science fairs the world over to shame.
Thanks to the work of 50 students over the course of 7 years, a pint-sized satellite set sail yesterday aboard a Minotaur 1 rocket, headed for Earth orbit. They call the cube TJ3Sat (so named for Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology where the students study). It is the size of a Rubik's cube and can be controlled with a smartphone.
The pint-sized satellite has now entered orbit, and you c
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DiscoverT...lxHZ3dR_A/
Yesterday a team of high school students put science fairs the world over to shame.
Thanks to the work of 50 students over the course of 7 years, a pint-sized satellite set sail yesterday aboard a Minotaur 1 rocket, headed for Earth orbit. They call the cube TJ3Sat (so named for Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology where the students study). It is the size of a Rubik's cube and can be controlled with a smartphone.
The pint-sized satellite has now entered orbit, and you c
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DiscoverT...lxHZ3dR_A/