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In early 2020 the spacecraft will leave the station and fly up to an altitude of about 310 miles (500 kilometers), where a NASA engineer will eject the student-build satellites. The satellites are hitching a ride on the Cygnus cargo spacecraft, whose first stop will be the International Space Station to resupply astronauts and swap out materials. HuskySat-1’s last moments on Earth will be broadcast live on NASA TV. “To me, the completion will be when we can get data from the satellite and send instructions back.”
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“It will be exciting once it’s in orbit,” said Paige Northway, a UW doctoral student in Earth and Space Sciences who has been involved since the project’s inception. HuskySat-1 sits under protection in the UW satellite lab in June, as it prepared to leave on its journey to Virginia and then to low-Earth orbit. 2, from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility on the Virginia coast. HuskySat-1 is one of seven student-built satellites from around the country scheduled to launch at 9:30 a.m. It will be the first student-built satellite from Washington state to go into space.
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Dennis Wise/University of WashingtonĪ University of Washington satellite smaller than a loaf of bread will, if all goes well, launch this weekend on its way to low-Earth orbit. The digital clock on the wall counts down the days, minutes and seconds until launch. Team members Paige Northway, Anika Hidayat, John Correy and Eli Reed (back row, left to right) watch in June as Henry Martin of Nanoracks does a “fit test” to ensure that the satellite fits inside the silver box.