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University Project to Launch Device in Space:

Posted: 21 Feb 2016 04:00 PM PST
http://www.eham.net/articles/36217


The University of Malta is planning to send a 250 gram device into space in
a project being held with the University of Birmingham, the Malta Amateur
Radio League (MARL), and the Italian Astrodynamics company, GAUSS Srl. The
5x5x5 cm device, referred to as a PocketQube pico-satellite, will be
launched in 2018 into a sun-synchronous low earth orbit (LEO) and will be
used to validate on-board equipment that will study the properties of an
ionised region of the Earth's upper atmosphere (known as the ionosphere).
This project will pave the way for a swarm of eight such satellites that
will spread over a large geographical area and hence gain better coverage
of changeable ionospheric conditions which affect radio communications.