Lumen Summer 2017 - Flipbook - Page 7
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T
hey9ve designed and built a new
CubeSat, a type of miniaturised
satellite, and one of only four
nanosatellites developed in Australia.
It will be sent via rocket to the
International Space Station (ISS) and then
deployed into orbit around the Earth.
The satellite is part of a Europeanfunded project called QB50, an
international network of 50 CubeSats that
will study a poorly understood part of the
Earth9s atmosphere, the thermosphere.
