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We think satellite, you're thinking the size of a car or bigger.
It's the size of a loaf of bread, and that's our satellite.
[Music] There's been
some evidence that lightning produces gamma rays and this is really the first
satellite that going to go out and investigate if,
and how, and where, and everything associated with gamma
rays coming from lightning. There's been evidence and others have seen this, but again,
there has never been a satellite dedicated, looking at, looking down at
Earth for these terrestrial gamma-ray bursts.
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[Music]Student 1: We want to make artificial
signals similar to lightning and see what the board does, make sure
it's filtering those signals the way we want. Student 2: We're going to put it into HDL
and then get it through this. Al Weatherwax: One of the tenents of the cubesat program
is to involve undergraduate students at all levels:
design, to building, to some of the theory,
data aquisition, every aspect of this. We're really training here
the next generation of space scientists, of satellite engineers.
As soon as the launch goes up and they know they're a part of that
satellite and data's coming in, I mean, that'll be with them throughout their life.
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