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KU Aerospace Engineering Launches First CubeSat Into Orbit
July 09, 2024
LAWRENCE, Kansas, July 9 -- The University of Kansas issued the following news:

A team of engineering students at the University of Kansas has successfully launched a small satellite, called a CubeSat, aboard a NASA-sponsored Firefly Aerospace rocket.

The university's first satellite, known as "KUbeSat-1" reached orbit late in the evening July 3 when it was launched through NASA's ELaNa 43 (Educational Launch of Nanosatellites 43) mission. According . . .

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