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UK engineering students will make a delivery to the final frontier in the near future.
Since 2006, students working with the Space Systems Lab have been designing, building and prepping a cube satellite for its flight into space, which could be as soon as February.
Electrical and computer engineering Professor Dr. James Lumpp helped the students on their mission to create a small satellite that could be put into space and communicate with the students on the ground.
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A tiny satellite built by a consortium of Kentucky universities will be launched by NASA as part of its Glory spacecraft launch.
The KySat-1 will launch in November. The consortium that developed the satellite is called Kentucky Space, a nonprofit enterprise "involved in designing and developing entrepreneurial and educational space platforms."
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NASA to launch Kentucky satellite
A satellite built by a consortium of Kentucky universities, public agencies and businesses will be launched during a NASA space shuttle mission sometime in mid-2009.
KySat-1, the first satellite built in Kentucky, is a cube-shaped unit powered by solar energy, Gov. Steve Beshears office said in a news release.

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