Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Radio Aurora Explorer (RAX) - Friday, Nov 19. Launch!‏

This Friday night / Saturday morning (0124 UTC), the Radio Aurora Explorer (RAX) CubeSat will launch from Kodiak, Alaska onboard a Minotaur IV rocket. RAX was built by the University of Michigan and SRI International to complete a new space weather mission to characterize certain effects that disturb our atmosphere
and cause the northern lights.

It will be the first student-built satellite from the University of Michigan, and the
first National Science Foundation sponsored CubeSat.

You are invited to follow along with the launch with live streaming video at:

http://rax.engin.umich.edu

or read on FaceBook page at:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/RAX-Radio-Aurora-Explorer/168658456492859

or follow on Twitter at:

http://twitter.com/RAX_2010

Source: Victoria Alonsopérez, SGAC Uruguay

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