Science the final frontier. Again NASA make it there first mission to explore space this time it is with 29 satellite. Minotaur one is scheduled to lift off from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia at 7:30 p.m. tonight. The 29 satellites, most ever launched at one time, includes 28 small satellites called CubeSats. The CubeSats are aptly named. Also called nanosatellites, they are small cubes, about 4 inches on each side.
Among the CubeSats is the built by the students of Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Alexandria, Virginia. It will be the first satellite made by high-schoolers to go into space.
Once in orbit, the “TJ3Sat will allow students and amateur radio users the opportunity to send and receive data from the satellite. Students and other users from around the world will be able to submit text strings to be uploaded to the TJ3Sat website,” according to Orbital Sciences Corp, the developer and manufacturer of the Minotaur rocket.
NASA says the launch may be visible from northern Florida to southern Canada and as far west as Indiana.
If you can’t see the launch from where you are, it will be streamed by NASA live.
Information obtained from nasa.gov
