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CUSat set to launch Sept. 14 from California

After eight years of planning, submitting, winning, building and waiting, Cornell University's CUSat - a nanosatellite designed and built by engineering students to help calibrate global positioning systems (GPS) with pinpoint accuracy - will be launched Sept. 14 from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Lompoc, Calif.
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Cornell's satellite wins first prize of a NASA launch -- far, far above Cayuga's waters
Over the past two years, Cornell's CUSat satellite project has engaged and educated a parade of engineering students, sometimes changing their careers. Now the final product -- an innovative experiment in outer space manoeuvring and inspecting -- has received the go-ahead for a NASA launch into orbit.
Cornell's CUSat was chosen March 27 as the winner of the University Nanosatellite Program's Nanosat-4 competition sponsored by the Air Force and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and will fulfil the project's catchphrase -- a paraphrase of the school's alma mater -- by rising "far, far above Cayuga's waters."

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