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

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

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Al Weatherwax: There's been some evidence that lightning produces gamma rays, and this is really

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the first satellite that's going to go out and investigate

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if and how and where and everything associated with

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gamma rays coming from lightning. There's been evidence and others have seen

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this, but again, there's never been a satellite dedicated, looking at--

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looking down at Earth for these terrestrial gamma ray bursts.

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--We want to make artifical signals similar to lightning and see what

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the board does, make sure it's filtering those the way we want.

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--put it into HTL code and get it through this--
Al: One of the tenets of the

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CubeSat program is to involve undergraduate students at all levels.

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From design to building to some

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of the theory, data acquisition, every aspect of this. We're really

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training here the next generation of space scientists, of satellite engineers.

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As soon as the launch goes up, and they know

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they're a part of that satellite and data is coming in, I mean, that will be with them throughout