Manitoba-designed satellite set to take to the skies, carrying the work of U of M students – Winnipeg | 24CA News
Students on the University of Manitoba have debuted a satellite tv for pc that’s set to launch into area in just some months.
The satellite tv for pc is simply concerning the measurement of a milk carton nevertheless it’s the results of years of exact engineering. It’s known as the CubeSat — nicknamed Iris — and college students have been engaged on it for over 4 years.
In June, it is going to launch on the SpaceX rocket from Cape Canaveral as much as the International Space Station and the cameras inside will take photos to see how their colors change when uncovered to area radiation.
“The astronauts will unpack it from the Dragon capsule, they’ll put it into a special deployer, and they’ll open up the window and shoot it out of the space station for us,” mentioned Philip Ferguson, undertaking lead.
On prime of a number of laborious work by school college students, some center schoolers additionally acquired concerned in designing the sundial for the payload — a bit stick that exhibits what path the solar is shining on the samples.
“They were completely excited that they get to do real-world science in real time and that something they made is actually going into space. And it’s gonna be part of history.” mentioned Maria Nickel, instructor on the Interlake School Division.
“And we’ll be eagerly waiting in our ground station for Iris to say, ‘I’m here, I’m in space and I’m healthy’”
— with information from Global’s Katherine Dornian
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