Congratulations to the CatSat team for a successful satellite integration at Vandenberg Space Force Base. Next step: orbit!
At dawn on April 24, 2024, a student-led team from the University of Arizona climbed into a vehicle headed 660 miles across state lines to Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. In their possession: a hand-built satellite the size of a cereal box. CatSat, a type of nanosatellite know as a CubeSat, is the first student-led satellite mission at UArizona. On Tuesday, the team integrated their satellite into the Firefly Alpha rocket that will launch it into orbit sometime in June.
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