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We think satellite, you're thinking the size of a car or bigger.

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It's the size of a loaf of bread, and that's our satellite.

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[Music] There's been

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some evidence that lightning produces gamma rays and this is really the first

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satellite that going to go out and investigate if,

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and how, and where, and everything associated with gamma

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rays coming from lightning. There's been evidence and others have seen this, but again,

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there has never been a satellite dedicated, looking at, looking down at

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Earth for these terrestrial gamma-ray bursts.

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[Music]Student 1: We want to make artificial

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signals similar to lightning and see what the board does, make sure

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it's filtering those signals the way we want. Student 2: We're going to put it into HDL

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and then get it through this. Al Weatherwax: One of the tenents of the cubesat program

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is to involve undergraduate students at all levels:

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design, to building, to some of the theory,

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data aquisition, every aspect of this. We're really training here

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the next generation of space scientists, of satellite engineers.

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As soon as the launch goes up and they know they're a part of that

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satellite and data's coming in, I mean, that'll be with them throughout their life.

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