ARLA/CLUSTER: Irvine01: 100 estudantes americanos juntam-se para construir um pequeno satelite

[João Costa > CT1FBF]

High school students building satellite

More than 100 students from five Irvine high schools and a dozen more
from a local middle school are on a mission to launch a satellite -
Irvine01

The Los Angeles Times newspaper says:

The goal is to send a 4-by-4-inch device known as a CubeSat into low
Earth orbit for the first in a series of missions. It is designed to
carry a camera and a solar panel propulsion system and collect data
such as temperatures and the satellite's speed, direction, location
and altitude. The launch is planned for March 2017.

"It's a very ambitious project," said Tinh Tran, 41, a teacher in
University High School's STEM program, or science, technology,
engineering and math. "This usually is done at the university or
corporate level, so this is a once-in-a-generation opportunity."

Read the full story at
http://www.latimes.com/socal/daily-pilot/news/tn-dpt-me-0326-satellite-kickoff-20160325-story.html

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